Next week, millions of Americans will head to the polls to cast their vote for U.S. President, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, state ...

Get ’em while they’re young. That’s the core idea behind a buzz-worthy new initiative to instill the habit of ...

In a blockbuster scoop, The New York Times recently reported evidence that presidential nominee Donald Trump could’ve legally ...

In a watershed moment, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution in 2000 urging the greater participation of women in ...

Extractive companies come and go, but the damage stays. When local communities welcome oil, gas, and mining business interests into ...

Elected leaders to city government would have good reason to stop giving certain banks their business: those banks are exploiting their ...

Today’s youngest will grow up experiencing a new phenomenon in human history: being alive at the same time as four to five ...

Due to the declining power of ordinary workers against powerful employers in general, unfairly low compensation is the unfortunate ...

In order to build the pipeline of Black and Hispanic talent, as a society we also need to bring more Black and Hispanic Americans into ...

America aspires to be a country of second chances. In terms of the numbers, most incarcerated people do eventually return to society on ...

The rate of new business start-ups is in a long decline in the United States, raising concerns about this crucial source of job ...

The United States as a country is so awash in abundance that we use 10 percent of the total national energy budget to bring food from ...

By now, chances are that readers of this website have heard of the Panama Papers. So let’s get right to the point: what should be ...

It may not seem like a sexy issue, but vacant federal property is often the target of ire from lawmakers and pundits. That’s why ...

Decades ago, people stopping by in a bookstore or public library in Amman, Jordan, or Istanbul, Turkey, wouldn’t have been ...

Summary The global community faces a challenge: how do we lift developing nations out of poverty while avoiding the greenhouse ...

It’s time to update the standardized disability access sign used across the country. Since it was introduced in the late 1960s, ...

It’s no surprise the United States is so attractive to foreign plutocrats, international criminals, and corrupt politicians ...

When new affordable housing projects are proposed for a community, residents who already live there will often protest with ...

Companies should be required to publicly disclose their gender pay gaps, just like the SEC is proposing that companies be required to ...

When people’s debt are canceled by a bankruptcy judge, the “zombie” debt should be cleared from their consumer ...

Build wind and solar -power plants in sun-rich deserts and hook them into electrical grids to power regions that are sun-challenged.  ...

Our old iPads and iPhones and other devices contribute to a growing world-wide tonage of e-waste, much of which is toxic and shipped to ...

There are roughly 2 million interns in the US and about half of them are unpaid. A new Fair Pay Campaign has won a bunch of high ...

Let’s get the junk food out of our campaigns! We’re smart. We can do it….We’re working hard, we’re ...

People with disabilities can legally be paid far less than minimum wage – even less than $1 per hour. “The conversation on ...

2020. 2042. 2050. Lots of people and groups are starting to create future visions, scenarios, strategies. Is it possible we could ...

What are all the things Obama and agencies can do with the executive branch? And what are all the bad things they should NOT do? A ...

Use mini-grants to promote progressive values, the same way the Awesome Foundation promotes Awesome. Submitted by: Multiple submitters ...

Match a college’s enrollment records against the voter file and tell them how many of their students are registered and how often ...

Campaign to Save CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)     Submitted by: Billy Wimsatt Status: Updated: 1-28-15 ...

National network of scholars (profs, grad students, undergrads) who do research to support community organizations and social ...

Small planes are #1 cause of airborne lead – totally fixable. The EPA must ban lead from small planes – just like in large ...

Train 100,000 low-opportunity youth to become computer programmers. Live at http://www.yeswecode.org/. Submitted by: Van Jones Status: ...

Help people understand the history and best practices for changing their community by crowd-sourcing a syllabus of key readings and ...

Florida’s Dream Defenders, Ohio Student Association, and Virginia Student Power Network are three examples of an exciting new ...

Three finger salute symbol of Resistance. Harry Potter Alliance is already running this ingenious campaign. http://oddsinourfavor.org/ ...