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A collage featuring the text "Forgotten Hardships," with images of distressed people, a graph with a declining trend, and various historical imagery in red and black tones.

Life was dirty, difficult, and dangerous for almost everyone who ever existed

9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.

Jason Crawford

Global Development

A new vision for the advancement of humanity

The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.

Jason Crawford

A person holds up a cardboard sign with the message "psychedelics are not a crime" in a crowded room.

Drugs

Psychedelic drugs and the law: What’s next?

The push to legalize magic mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, and other hallucinogens is likely to heighten tensions between state and federal law.

Ben Seal | Knowable Magazine

Chefs work together to end child hunger.

Food

Chefs fight child hunger with No Kid Hungry

A group of culinary professionals in Chicago is volunteering their talents to end child hunger in the US, and some are going all the way to Capitol Hill.

B. David Zarley

Building Community

Old Skool Café provides an alternative to gangs and violence

In partnership with Stand Together

As a former prison guard, Teresa Goines watched kids drift in and out of the justice system. Now she runs a jazz-themed eatery that hires at-risk youth and gives them a place to learn and grow.

Esther Landhuis

Female Leaders

Female scientists were written out of history books. margaret rossiter changed that.

Margaret Rossiter has made it her lifework to spotlight female scientists who were written out of history books through systematic censorship. Read our Q&A with this groundbreaking historian.

Teresa Carey

Activism

This nonprofit gives bikes and people new life

Working Bikes has spent nearly two decades rescuing bicycles from the waste cycle to give people purpose, access to jobs, and independence.

B. David Zarley

Series| Catalysts

Investing in families to escape poverty

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In partnership with Stand Together

The greatest investment of all may be in people’s strengths and initiative. This nonprofit is doing just that, and it’s working.

Female Leaders

The guardian angel for separated families

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What happens to children of immigrants when their parents are deported out of the United States? This woman is stepping in, and is now the legal guardian of 1500 immigrant children. Watch now to see the incredible efforts of Nora Sandigo.

Building Community

This social enterprise is cleaning up Chicago one street at a time

This nonprofit is not only polishing the streets of Chicago, but providing a "clean slate" for its interns. Those with a criminal background, dealing with addiction recovery, or domestic violence, are welcome to take part in job training and counseling.

B. David Zarley

Global Development

Life jackets are used to create jewelry, opportunity for refugees

Hordes of bright orange lifejackets are strewn across the rocky beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos. Discarded...

Teresa Carey

Urban Living

The future of micromobility in Africa

In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, improvements to infrastructure shift focus from cars to micromobility. The city’s transportation plan calls for hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes and pedestrian pathways for increased safety.

B. David Zarley

Series| Catalysts

Can former Bloods and Crips unite to break the cycle of violence?

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In partnership with Stand Together

For the children of Dallas, these ex gang leaders may be their only chance.

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