How does it work? What are the perks? Is this a paywall? In a short video, David Byrne answers questions about our new membership program.

After a citizen-led campaign to draw fairer voting maps, this year Michigan voters will finally choose their politicians — instead of the other way around.

Though overfishing remains a global problem, a science-driven approach has led to surprisingly sustainable practices in some countries, including the U.S.

After a 70-year effort China has eradicated malaria. Could other countries replicate their success?

To reduce incarceration, some counties and cities have stopped automatically prosecuting minor nonviolent crimes — and crime overall has gone down. A wave of policy and policing reform has followed.

Residents of Stockton, California who received $500 a month disproved the notion that handouts make people lazy.

The U.S. stimulus bill includes guaranteed monthly payments to families with children. Will it work? It already has.

Not every call to the police requires an armed response. Now, a more compassionate alternative is catching on.

As fees for overdue items are forgiven, bookworms are flocking back.

New Zealand improved recycling rates by awarding shiny gold stars, showing that social approval can be a more powerful motivator than money.

How a single infusion of cash can help folks turn their lives around.

Life looks a little different these days.

What the New York borough that voted for Trump taught me about the messy business of bridging divides.

What if, instead of hating each other’s beliefs, we learned more about where they come from?

If we can hold up a mirror to ourselves and change, that’s a reason to be cheerful.

The U.S. government spends more on higher education than many countries where students graduate with far less debt. Is there a better way?

The data proves that regulating police behavior results in fewer killings of civilians.

By the end of this decade, the world’s dirtiest source of energy will have vanished from over a dozen European countries.

How a conservative, oil-pumping state became one of the world’s biggest generators of wind power.

The pandemic is revealing the many ways our lives intersect. Is this an opportunity for us to reimagine what we can be?

Chile is banning cereal mascots and slapping warning labels on unhealthy foods. Now even the kids won’t touch them.

In Singapore, housing is affordable, diverse and impeccably maintained.

A country that opposes human rights and democracy is also coming up with some smart solutions. Can we emulate the good without endorsing the bad?

As cities around the world confront an affordability crisis, a few have spent a century perfecting the art of subsidized housing for the masses.

In country after country, one of the world’s deadliest diseases is being eradicated. In many cases, it’s women leading the fight.

Those ubiquitous flimsy shopping sacks are vanishing from country after country, leaving less plastic in our seas, our trees and our own digestive systems.

While other European countries cut their budgets to the bone, Portugal lent its citizens a helping hand. Guess who came out on top.

Mexico’s tax on sugary drinks will save thousands of lives and millions of dollars. Ahhh… sweet social change.

A collectivist spirit permeates this island nation’s art scene, where artists supporting artists has helped the creative ecology thrive.

They’re dangerous, destructive, polluting, expensive, inefficient and inequitable—not to mention a pain in the ass. Now cars are being chased off city streets. That’s progress.

What would happen if our first step towards solving homelessness was to actually give people someplace to live?

This bustling Nigerian city is bursting at the seams with art fairs, biennials and galleries. Now, some of the artists who left to find work elsewhere are returning home.

These days, the litigators hauling climate change scoundrels into court are doing more than any politician to keep our environment healthy and livable.

Not long ago I ended up at a biennial in Kochi, a little Indian city with a thriving art scene. Could this be a place where artists can make a living?

More and more institutions and even whole countries are ending their investments in fossil fuels. This is happening. Money talks.

These days, fossil fuels look like a shakier investment than ever. As more investors decide the smart money is on clean energy, a tipping point appears near.

Our future survival may depend on our ability to adopt more selfless habits. One city has proven we can do it.

Is the art world in the midst of a vast diffusion? These days, creative ecologies are proliferating, and the center appears to be everywhere and nowhere.