Manging More Change, Faster
Upset with how slow public-health initiatives moved in poor countries, Josh Ruxin decided to treat them like the private sector. Just weeks after the…
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The High Stakes of Asylum Cases
Emily Arnold-Fernandez’s first client was a Liberian teen who would be forced to go to war without her help. When Emily Arnold-Fernandez realized the…
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Tackling Homelessness Beyond Shelters
Rosanne Haggerty’s Common Ground creates permanent housing that has reduced homelessness by 87 percent in one 20-block area of New York City. Rosanne Haggerty…
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Extreme Do-GooderS: What Makes Them Tick?
Five extraordinary social entrepreneurs talk about their defining moments – when the urge to change the world gathered such force they couldn’t ignore it….
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Empathy Is His Superpower
Geoffrey Canada’s initiative, Harlem Children’s Zone, has grown to reach 8,000 children across nearly 100 city blocks. New York — Geoffrey Canada still remembers…
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Reporter Succeeds Where UN Failed: Rwanda rebel website closed
FDLR militia group’s website in Europe shut down after German newspaper raised questions. The war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo took a surprising…
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The Pity and Voyeurism — and Authenticity — Of Poverty Tourism
Does peeking at how the other five-sixths lives preserve culture – or commodify it? Mayange, Rwanda — Jeanne d’Arc Mukamurigo and her daughter sit…
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Peacebuliding: A Comprehensive Report
Graduating in America’s Great Recession
The class of 2009 makes adjustments in the face of a dearth of jobs and increasing interest rates on student loans and credit cards….
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America’s Tortured Torture Debate
Why does the line between coercion and torture seem so shadowy now? NEW YORK — There has been no shortage of confusion, follow-up questioning,…
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