Society

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

Series| Catalysts

Learning to code in prison

5:51

In partnership with Stand Together

This progressive organization is on a mission to break the cycle of recidivism, using coding. Incarcerated individuals can now spend their sentences acquiring marketable skills.

Social Entrepreneurs

Nonprofits innovating in the face of COVID-19

In partnership with Stand Together

Wondering how you can help during the coronavirus? Here are five organizations that need your support, and how your donation could be doubled.

Teresa Carey

Criminal Justice

The formerly incarcerated fighting for criminal justice reform

4:40

In partnership with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

These formerly incarcerated individuals are fighting to give people who’ve served their time a second chance by advocating for change in one of the country’s most notorious justice systems.

Doug Dais

Video Games

Minecraft players built a massive library for censored news

Minecrafts’s Uncensored Library is exploiting a loophole in surveillance technology to sneak the news past government censorship.

Teresa Carey

Urban Living

‘Seeing’ the world through smell

Kate McLean wants you to navigate your world by its smells, and is creating unique maps of cities by their scents.

Teresa Carey

Inventions

AI device helps wheelchair users control their world

These assistive devices are equipped with 360 cameras and eye-tracking technology to help those with mobility and speech impairments find independence.

Teresa Carey

Drugs

Safe injection sites are legal, US court rules

A U.S. judge has ruled that safe injection sites, places where users can consume drugs under medical supervision, don’t violate federal drug laws.

Kristin Houser

Music

Chance the Rapper is bringing music back to Chicago schools

On the far South Side of Chicago, as far south as you can get — a traffic light away from neighboring Riverdale —...

B. David Zarley

Urban Living

This urban farm in Dallas grows financial and social opportunities for residents

In partnership with Stand Together

A once impoverished and isolated neighborhood in South Dallas is now flourishing thanks to Bonton Farms.

Amanda Winkler

Series| Catalysts

How urban farming saved a Dallas community

5:15

In partnership with Stand Together

In the impoverished community of Bonton, it takes a three-hour bus ride just to reach the nearest grocery store. But the neighborhood is now home to one of the largest urban farms in the US - offering jobs, nutrition programs, and more.

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