The “Last Column” of 9/11
New York — New York City struck its first notes of memorial solemnity this week, returning an icon of the 9/11 attacks to ground…
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How an LA Gang Leader, Saved By Books, Uses Arts to Help Others
Poet Luis Rodriguez created Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and bookstore to help save others. Luis Rodriguez is not particularly interested in genesis stories. This…
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How Charities Harness Social Media
Mr. Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing clean water to impoverished villages in Africa. In January, he got…
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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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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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What Happens When You Try to Put All The Words Online
Lexicographer Erin McKean’s interactive ‘Wordnik’ is projected to be the largest online dictionary ever. CHICAGO — Erin McKean doesn’t look much like a revolutionary….
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