THE GOOD NEWS: Ecologists like Steve Hill are proving that passion, combined with creative solutions, can be a serious threat to our planet’s most destructive forces. All around the world, there’s unfortunate news about the environment: reefs are bleaching, glaciers are cleaving, and superstorms are brewing. In the United States, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke doesn’t believe …
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Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki at a press conference at Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland on 23 January 2018. NurPhoto/Press Association. All rights reserved.Poland’s new so-called “Holocaust law” sends a menacing message to its minority groups by turning the criminalization of hate speech on its head. Hate speech laws are normally enacted as …
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Robert Egger and his L.A. Kitchen are redefining how to feed communities in need. This weekend, he’s getting more than a little help from his friends at the Los Angeles Chargers, who will be underwriting a new initiative to serve 30,000 meals to people in need at the Summit LA17, the flagship ideas festival in downtown …
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Credit: OWFI.In Iraq, including in areas controlled by ISIS, women, girls, LGBTIQ persons, and people perceived as stepping outside of traditional gender roles have been targeted for violence on a staggering scale. ISIS fighters have tortured women doctors and nurses who have not complied with rigid dress codes, when doing so would interfere with the …
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Every Feb. 5, Nutella aficionados worldwide take to social media to celebrate World Nutella Day, composing songs, hosting parties and posting pictures of the sinfully sumptuous hazelnut and chocolate spread on everything from pancakes to pizzas to pastries. This year’s event was particularly notable, as the “Nutella riots” had surprised the world just 11 days earlier. …
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Each day from Dec. 14 through Dec. 25, GOOD Sports will feature a worthy school athletic program in need of funding. The students of Freshwater Elementary School in Denham Spring, Louisiana, saw their homes and school damaged by a massive flood. Rebuilding will take an even longer time since more than half of the student body …
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Elephants fight. Flickr/Chris Eason. Some rights reserved.New political-economic forces have upended ‘normal’ international and domestic politics in a good number of nations. This past 12 months has seen the confluence of the Trump takeover of the US Government, pressures to dismantle the EU through Brexit, Greek debt negotiations, the Le Pen campaign in France and …
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has sued the NFL’s owners for allegedly colluding to keep him out of the league, believing that league owners refused to hire him after his controversial on-field protests against racial inequality and police brutality. But while he sits on the sideline, he might consider a quote by Dr. Martin …
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The Armed Forces occupy the Complejo del Alemán, in Rio de Janeiro, to ensure security during the municipal elections in 2008. Image: Wilson Dias/ABr, CC BY-3.0 BR. Soldiers are back in Rio de Janeiro, but they had not been gone for long. In the last 12 months, the military was called 4 times to intervene. …
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US Ambassador David Balton, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials, with Aleut representatives of the Russian Commander Islands before the Arctic Council Ministerial at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Bob Hallinen/Press Association. All rights reserved.2017 was the year of principled power. The Social Democratic Party in Germany grappled with …
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