For the past six years, and perhaps by accident, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, has been offering reassurance to some of the nation’s brightest minds as they work towards solving some of the nation’s biggest problems. With insurers already shifting their plans as the Senate…

It started off as a joke. For many, it’s turned into a ghoulish nightmare. The reality star businessman with no political experience has ridden a train of xenophobia, racism, and misogyny all of the way to the Oval Office. …

Your plan for helping those hurt by Hurricane Matthew might actually cause more harm than good, so think twice before booking a flight. — We’ve all seen the photos. Photos of towns flattened, roads destroyed, bridges washed away, people killed, children homeless. …

On April 2, 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired the documentary “Volunteers Unleashed” after a controversial reworking of the film in response to threats of litigation from Free the Children, the superpower Canadian non-profit run by the Kielburger family. The founders of Free the Children, a non-profit closely tied…

Twitter activism can change the world. There are three types of memory that interest me: personal memory (the memory held by an individual), institutional memory (the consciousness of a corporate entity), and collective memory (the memory compiled, curated, and held by a community). This third is the most powerful and…

Celebrating my 150th post with a little self-flagellation  — Writing is motherf—king hard. It seems really simple. You sit down somewhere, anywhere really, pick up a pencil or open your computer, and write words. Those words, because they’re yours, are automatically meaningful and good as they are an extension of you. In reality, writing is more like an exercise…

Creative Storytelling is the Non-Profit Sector’s Drug of Choice — By Cambodia4kids.org Beth Kanter (Flickr: Somaly Mann) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons On May 21, 2014, Newsweek funneled years of speculation and doubt into a single piece that, once and for all, brought the legendary Somaly Mam into the spotlight for a type of fraud that has become the Achilles…

Sexual Harassment On My Evening Commute  — http://bit.ly/1nEwe1w I wanted to tell him “shut up and sit the hell down.” I wanted to remind him of his daughters, sisters, and mother, to ask him how he’d feel if they were called sexy in a way that made them feel anything but. I wanted to kick the shit…

Voluntourism in the Age of Social Media — Photo: Pippa Biddle I never meant to make anybody cry. I wanted the students at the small high school in Brooklyn to question themselves and the institutions that they are a part of, but I didn’t want to make them cry. Soon after walking off stage, a teacher pulled me…