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No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)

History Of Policing: How Did We Get Here?

Why Words Aren’t Enough From Companies Claiming to Support Black Lives Matter

Harvard Kennedy School

Some of My Best Friends Are Podcast

How science is telling us all to revolt

Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free

“Coronavirus Capitalism”: Naomi Klein’s Case for Transformative Change Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Naomi Klein to rush out new book taking on Trump administration

Naomi Klein on This Changes Everything, Her New Book About Climate Change

The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External

NaomiKlein.org

Naomi Klein: ‘We shouldn’t be surprised that kids are radicalised’

Helping Children Succeed: Little things can transform kids’ learning

No Is Not Enough

How Kids Learn Resilience

To Help Kids Thrive, Coach Their Parents

Paul Tough: Author, Speaker, Journalist.

Paul Tough on Helping Children Succeed in School and in Life

*Helping Children Succeed* Starts At Birth; A Case For The Power Of Nurture

The Soul Seeker

Neuroscientists helped design Europe’s new €50 so that anyone can spot a fake

The Brain on Trial

The Possibilian

How Your Brain Takes Good Ideas and Makes Them Better

David Eagleman’s New TV Show ‘The Brain’ Gets Inside Your Head

Where Do New Ideas Come From?

Understanding the Neuroscience That Fuels Creative Thinking Can Make You More Innovative

Why Open Offices Are the Answer … But Only for Now

In 2019, We Will Leverage Technology to Create New Senses

The iPhone Didn’t Emerge From Nothing. Here’s What Came Before It

Eagleman.com

Brené with David Eagleman on The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Bill Strickland’s Visit to Akko, Israel — And His Promise

Bill Strickland describes himself as “a kid from the neighborhood who got involved in the arts.”

Bill-Strickland.com

Bill Strickland’s education revolution

Review: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Still Hauntings

A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s 12-Year Project Captures a Dying Town

The Flesh and the Asphalt, Both Weak

How To Make Your Photos Matter

“Genius” Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier Is Using Her Camera as a Weapon

Flint Is Family

The Living Artist

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Harrowing Photography Is Like Goya Turning His Eye Toward the Struggles and Triumphs of Black America

A Black Woman, Steel Worker, and Artist, Through the Eyes of LaToya Ruby Frazier

Witness: LaToya Ruby Frazier in Conversation with Kellie Jones

Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis

The Geography of Oppression

What Happens to a Factory Town When the Factory Shuts Down?

Profile: LaToya Ruby Frazier

My Best Shot: Me and My Guardian Angel

The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, in the Words of Her Mother

Announcing the 2020-2021 National Geographic Storytelling Fellows

LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins 2022 Carnegie International’s Top Prize

The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II

Dawoud Bey, Chronicler of Black American Life

LaToyaRubyFrazier.com

Fast Company Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Mehta Settling Into New Role

Fast Company’s Stephanie Mehta Credits Her Success to Trusting Her Gut

Stephanie Mehta

Tech Beyond Silicon Valley

Why Your Company Should Turn Services Into Experiences

With One New App, The Entire World’s Oral History Is About To Go Viral

The Only Way to Play Warren Buffett’s NCAA March Madness Billion-Dollar Bracket This Year

Forbes Media Editor Randall Lane Joins Global Board Of The Global Poverty Project

Inside Trump’s Head: An Exclusive Interview With the President, And the Single Theory That Explains Everything

Reimagining Capitalism: How The Greatest System Ever Conceived (And Its Billionaires) Need To Change

Two Flights From Hell: Delta, United And The Future of Brand Authenticity

A Manifesto for Living in the Now: Q&A with Douglas Rushkoff

No Future: Present Shock and Why Our Now-Fixation Has Changed Everything From Advertising To Politics

One on One: Douglas Rushkoff on Everything Happening Now

Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether’

Living in the Present Is a Disorder

Why You Might Want To Rethink Making Those 401(k) Contributions

Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Silicon Valley is broken and heading for social unrest, argues media theorist

Online Companies Like Facebook Have Created a “Meaningless Economy”

The Online Economy Is Breaking Businesses, and Stealing Our Time and Energy

The Sustainability Prerogative: Nonprofits in the Future of our Economy

Computer Algorithms Are Killing Jobs and Narrowing Our Personalities

Corporate Growth for the Sake of Corporate Growth

The digital media age is all about the past: “The Internet is not an extension of television”

Facebook needs more ‘human bias’

All Articles

The Latest Google Controversy Shows How Corporate Funding Stifles Criticism

It’s Time To Break Up Amazon

Donald Trump is a media virus, but we’re the ones spreading him

Rushkoff.com

Team Human Stresses That The Future Lies In Connection And Cooperation

Looking For Love Again: Abandoned Buildings That Ask Cities For Renewal

How Candy Chang’s Public Art Projects Are Changing Communities Everywhere

How A Global Art Project Connects People Through Their Insecurities

A Conversation with Candy Chang, Public Installation Artist and Designer

2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors

CandyChang.com

‘Meltdown’ Review: Flirting With Disaster

András Tilcsik

Change Agents 2016

Rethink Risk

One Way to Reduce Gender Bias in Performance Reviews

Many Chinas

Why Iraq Has No Army

How America Can Rise Again

China’s Way Forward

‘Postcards From Tomorrow Square’

The Un-American Essentialism of Donald Trump

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

James Fallows’ Blog at The Atlantic

The Atlantic Grows International Presence Across the Atlantic

Where History Is Being Made

‘American Carnage’: The Trump Era Begins

America Is Fumbling Its Most Important Relationship

The Reinvention of America

The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything

The Reigning King of the Cover Story

Breaking the News

Ellen Ochoa, First Latinx Director Of Johnson Space Center, Retires

Trump’s Moon Shot Might Be Steered by a Woman, Says NASA Chief

Meet Dr. Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to go into space

NASA: Ellen Ochoa

Lessons in NASA Leadership

Celebrate Ellen Ochoa the First Latina in Space & NASA Trailblazer

From the Archives: Ellen Ochoa’s first space flight made history

How Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space, dealt with ‘people who didn’t think I should be there’

How White Supremacist Hatred Drives Acts of Violence Against Powerful Women

How Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and Other Men Play the Gender Card

The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women

Campus Protests Are Part of a Critique of White Male Privilege

What ignoring E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation does to all of us

The Power of Enraged Women

‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: Writer Soraya Chemaly on Why Women Should Unleash Their Rage

How Do You Fix Facebook’s Moderation Problem? Figure out What Facebook Is

Who’s Allowed to Get Angry?

Bernie Sanders isn’t sexist. The whole system is.

All the Rage

Responding to Terror in the Aftermath of the Manchester Attack

SorayaChemaly.com

Angry Former Spy Chiefs, Anxiety, and Discord Over Trump at a Security Forum

What Donald Trump Can Do to Help Stop Terrorism: Talk Less

How John Kerry Could End Up Outdoing Hillary Clinton

Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty – sources

Trump Embraces the Moral Ambiguity of a Halfway War

All Work by David Rohde in The New Yorker

Held by the Taliban: Seven Months in Captivity

Can a Massive Stroke Change a Life — For the Better?

KitraCahana.com

Joy, Compassion and Fulfillment: Kitra Cahana’s Spiritual Transformation

Beautiful Brains

From Beauty Queen to War-Zone Lawyer

We’re Not Done in Afghanistan

Failing Farkhunda means failing Afghan women

Kimberley Motley: Making waves in Afghanistan’s legal system

Outspoken, American and a Woman: Afghanistan’s Only Foreign Litigator Stands Out

Australian children reunited with mother after being abducted by father and taken to Afghanistan in 2012

Motley’s Law: Trailer

‘Motley’s Law’: Film Review

Brought Together by Pain, 3 Girls Forced Into Marriage Have New Dreams

Kimberley Motley: From beauty pageants to Afghanistan’ s only foreign lawyer

Harvard’s Chetty Cited by Obama Wins Clark Young Economist Award

Catching Up With Raj Chetty

Yes, Economics Is a Science

How geography changes life expectancy for America’s poorest

Hillary Clinton taps Harvard professor’s ideas on social mobility

Life Expectancy Study: It’s Not Just What You Make, It’s Where You Live

Where living poor means dying young

Which colleges in America help the most children climb the income ladder?

The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters.

Harvard’s Chetty Finds Economic Carnage in Wealthiest ZIP Codes

rajchetty.com

Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

The man who taught Uber how to say sorry

When Not Paying Attention Pays Off

Should We Invest More In Pre-Schools Or Parents?

Why It’s So Hard to Scale a Great Idea

How John List Revolutionized Economics by Studying People in the Real World

How Ford is Thinking About the Future

The University of Chicago

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future

How Incumbent Businesses Can See Off Upstarts

Behind the Scenes in Luxury

Why Leaders Need to Spend More Time Dreaming

Reinventing Your Business Model

Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Do the U.S.’s Big Four Tech Companies Have a Vision for the Future?

Does Your Company Have a Long-Term Plan for Remote Work?

The Delicate Art of Political Persuasion

Mark Johnson

The Science of What Makes People Care

A “Liberal’s Guide” for Surviving the Holidays

How To Use Moral Reframing To Persuade Conservatives To Support Immigration

Perceived Threat to Racial Status Leads to Opposition

A Stanford Professor Explains How to Persuade Someone…

The Key to Political Persuasion

The Simple Psychological Trick to Political Persuasion

RobbWiller.org

How to Save Democracy

Strengthening Democracy Challenge

Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

If They Google You, Do You Win?

Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets

What your wife says about you on social media may not be what she thinks, ex-Googler warns

“Don’t Trust Your Gut” author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

The Songs That Bind

Nonfiction Review: Don’t Trust Your Gut

Author Talks: Can you trust your gut?

Don’t Trust Your Gut review – the problem with intuition

The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters

The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either.

SethSD.com

Pharrell Williams Producing Taraji P. Henson’s ‘Hidden Figures’

FOX 2000’s Hidden Figures is Cast

African American Women Worked as Some of NASA’s First Computers

Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s

Oscars Less White? There’s No Shortage of Black Films in 2016

NASA Langley honors a groundbreaking mathematician

The ‘Hidden Figures’ of NASA’s Early Years and the Woman Who Told Their Story

8 Books by Women for Bill Gates to Read This Summer

The Upside of Career Restlessness

Q&A with Margot Lee Shetterley

The Hidden History of NASA’s Black Female Scientists

Margot Lee Shetterly: Research. Write. Repeat.

Bitcoin for the Unbanked

The Exclusion Zone

Casey’s Articles at the WSJ

Michael Casey, Bitcoin Reporter, Is Heading To The MIT Media Lab

Bitcoin’s Bold Experiment: A Goldmine for Economic Researchers

Could the Blockchain Empower the Poor and Unlock Global Growth?

Here’s How to Fix Facebook’s Fake News

Programming human beings to build a hate-free Internet

Why Now, More Than Ever, We Need to Unleash Our “Inner Bowies”

How the Blockchain Will Enable Self-Service Government

In Blockchain We Trust

Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain

Politeness Can Sometimes Hurt More Than it Helps

MichaelJCasey.com

Having Kids Can Make Parents Less Empathetic

How a ‘Kindness Contagion’ Improves Lives, Especially Now

When Cops Choose Empathy

The War for Kindness

Making Empathy Central to Your Company Culture

Indonesia’s Tsunami and the Problem of Human Empathy

Making Empathy Central to Your Company Culture

Empathy: What it is (and isn’t) and how companies can put it to good use

The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think

Your negative emotions are hurting your team. Try empathy instead

We volunteer to help others, but research shows how much it helps us, too

It’s time to teach empathy and trust with the same rigor as we teach coding

Don’t Let Cynicism Undermine Your Workplace

Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Satellites in the shed? TEDGlobal announces the new DIY revolution

Why we need Open, Hackable Materials now – An Interview with Catarina Mota

Catarina Mota and Marcin Jakubowski Introduce the Open Building Institute

Open Materials

Why Do Americans Stink at Math?

Teaching Teaching

Building a Better Teacher

Chalkbeat

Beyond the viral video

The Bay’s Bonnie Brooks’ lifelong quest to be the best

Bonnie of The Bay

Bonnie Brooks gets a promotion at The Bay

Bonnie Brooks named Ivey Business Leader of the Year

Bonnie Brooks: Homecoming queen

4ChristineMarie.com

Spectacles of shadow: Fellows Friday with Christine Marie

Biomedical engineer uses electrical signals to grow beating heart tissue

Tissue Engineering No Easy Cell

Nina Tandon on Being an Entrepreneur

For healing broken bones by growing new ones

Donate organs? No, grow them from scratch

Meet Nina Tandon, the woman who is working on growing bones in a lab

From Gender Biases to Extreme Parenting: The Top Questions Women Working in STEM are Sick of Hearing

NinaTandon.co

NY Daily News hires columnist and activist Shaun King

Conservatives Are Missing the Point of Black Lives Matter

The plot to destroy Shaun King

Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story

Shaun Kings Joins The Intercept as a Columnist

ShaunKing.org

Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history

What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answer

We Are the Last Defense Against Trump

American Democracy Is Dying, and This Election Isn’t Enough to Fix It

Why Some Countries Go Bust

Study: Robots set to displace millions of U.S. workers by 2025

Robots could hobble developing countries

To Go Forward, Turkey Must Look Back

The Democracy Dividend: Faster Growth

MIT’s Acemoglu Sees a Skills Gap in the U.S.

The Greatest Generation’s Squandered Legacy

Why Some Countries Go Bust

Nations fail because their leaders are greedy, selfish and ignorant of history

The Poverty of Nations

Review: ‘Catching the Sun’ Profiles Solar Energy Entrepreneurs and Activists

Catching the Sun

Meet the director of a solar documentary you’ll actually want to watch

‘Coded Bias’ Is the Most Important Film About AI You Can Watch Today

‘Coded Bias’: Film Review