While the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians to win their first World Series in 108 years on a rainy Wednesday night in Ohio, thousands of Chicagoans swarmed outside Wrigley Field to celebrate. Amidst the raucous street…
THE GOOD NEWS: The pop singer sends an empowering message to her fans by asking them to stop covering their faces in selfies with her. A 2017 report by…
THE GOOD NEWS: Revisiting architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s solutions-based-design thinking could inspire fixes for the most confounding of current housing crises, urban design challenges, and forthcoming climate change problems. …
This January, American gymnasts Simone Biles and Aly Raisman posed for the upcoming Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This comes just five months after the two led the U.S. to a dominant gold-medal…
State legalization has unsurprisingly proved a boon to the cannabis business: Legal marijuana sales in the United States are projected to reach $7.1 billion this year, and some analysts are calling…
After years of negotiation, 195 countries finally adopted the Paris Agreement last December, legally obligating each nation to dedicate themselves to climate change mitigation. It was generally seen as a…
Celebrities looked predictably stunning on the red carpet at the 89th annual Academy Awards on Sunday evening. Women and men alike rocked the latest couture from Armani to Zuhair Murad,…
At a time of national and personal reflection, it’s natural that the pursuit of happiness is on people’s minds: in life, in politics, and in work, which — let’s face…
There’s a rising chorus of concern among tech leaders in the United States about how quickly robots will take away human jobs. Stephen Hawking has warned about the perils of automation in…
[ THE GOOD NEWS: Gun sales are tanking under Trump, so the NRA is desperate to find new ways to make its supporters paranoid. Gun manufacturers can always depend…