This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the donor’s perspective, effective altruism means that giving shouldn’t be simply an emotional response to, say, a photo of a sad child or the story about a homeless person.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mainstream nonprofits struggling to understand how and why they must investigate the technology for good on which they depend for its “values fit” would do well to turn to such…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An Inconvenient Sequel, the follow-up to Al Gore’s blockbuster 2006 global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, spends a major chunk of its screen time on an intellectual-property deal—one that was imagined, brokered,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This article was originally published in September 2017, but the following action items continue to be relevant. If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the National Suicide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ending Cancer by 2025, a magazine by Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center is coming soon.
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even under optimistic scenarios, incidences of poverty, maternal mortality, child mortality, child underdevelopment, HIV infection, and tuberculosis will exceed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets in 2030, according to a report released…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Earth Day approaches, it’s an appropriate time to remember environmental successes we’ve had. One such victory was the Montreal Protocol, the first major international environmental agreement of its kind,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Europeans had introduced rabbits to Australia at the end of the 18th century, whereupon the fuzzy critters started breeding like, well, y’know. A century later, they had become a serious…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The G20 is likely to issue a call to action against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) this weekend. AMR is a threat to public health, and increasingly will retard economies. It is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some 20 million people around the world are victims of human trafficking, and nearly 70 percent of those are trapped in forced labor. The International Labour Organization reports that this…
Every now and then she pulled over and chatted with women, inviting them to jump in and visit the Studio. At one stop, a lot of children were playing near…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Following an outpouring of LGBTI pride marches and celebrations in the U.S. and abroad during June – and with many more still to come around the world – we should…