Month: March 2019

Ferguson’s Municipal Public Library weathered the streets swelled with protesters and officers alike. The death of Michael Brown tipped the scales in the town 10 miles from St. Louis, skulking the lid off decades of questionable practices from city and state administrators. What erupted was an outpouring of outrage and fright, as residents marched, pleaded,…

Though Charlie Hall has garnered attention playing for Northwestern in previous seasons, his notoriety has been mostly due to the presence of his famous mom, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, cheering him on from the stands. The forward hadn’t actually scored a bucket for his team going into his junior year campaign, but that dubious distinction went by the wayside when…

In a blip in time, marijuana’s image has been rebranded from sketchy to consumer-friendly, largely thanks to female executives disassociating the plant’s positive attributes from its historically bad rap. Women dominate from a consumer standpoint, too—from Apothecanna’s ganja-infused moisturizers to Whoopi & Maya’s THC-laced bath soaks, it seems there are no lucrative opportunities left unturned. In…

It is looking very, very likely that Filipino citizens are about to vote their first out trans person into public office. As the polls closed on Monday evening (local time), Geraldine Roman had a commanding lead over her opponent, Danny Malana, to become the lower house representative for the first district of the Bataan province,…

This story is part of an ongoing campaign called the Alphabet of Illiteracy. By using letters themselves—the foundation of reading and writing—Project Literacy examines the ways illiteracy underpins some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Below, we explore the letter P for “performance.” Three years ago, eleventh-grader Pathum Madigapola was on the verge of dropping out of school. “I…

When Shawn Jones joined the Navy in 2008, he wanted to be an air rescue swimmer, jumping out of helicopters to save soldiers in choppy waters. Jones didn’t make the program—instead spending his five years of service as a crane operator, event planner, and weapons specialist—but in his retirement, he has found another way to help soldiers struggling to swim. Jones…

At GOOD, we’ve always believed in the power of business to make the world a better place, so years back, we created a division to help companies figure out how to do just that. Here’s a story from that work: As much as we might like it to be, social impact isn’t always a first…

British mom Jessica Stubbins recently gave birth in record time. While her husband was busy parking the car, Stubbins walked through the hospital doors only to go into labor right then and there. Seconds later, Stubbins gave birth to their baby girl in the hospital doorway, and seconds after that, Stubbins’ husband ran through the doors…

A very, very old ball of yarn is giving us new insights into what life was like more than 3,000 years ago during the Bronze Age. The excavation of ruins in a small village located in what is now Cambridge, England has uncovered a number of artifacts from ancient fabrics to household goods and thatched roofs. The…

There’s a common myth about teenagers drinking in France. Because many French young people are allowed moderate amounts of wine at dinner, the story goes, they learn that booze isn’t such a big deal and thus drink more moderately. As it turns out, France has a serious problem with young binge drinkers, so that cute…