One of the more unfortunate side effects being felt around the world in the wake on the ongoing global pandemic is the pressure on people’s finances. Many people the world over, not just in the US have suffered unjustly due to job losses, reduced working capacity and frequency loss of benefits to aid them until…

Picture – CC0 License  Philanthropy is something that we are all doing our best to incorporate into our lives. When you are running a company, in some respects, it encourages you to be shrewd. And this has been apparent during the last 9 months or so. When you are running a business during tough times…

Frederick Kaufman Frederick Kaufman is an author, a contributing editor at Harper’s, and a professor at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Although it’s good to say sorry sometimes, and it might even be deemed completely essential at some points in your life, saying sorry is something that can be done too much. The word ‘sorry’ will quickly lose all meaning if you say it out of habit at times when, in all honesty, an apology is…

Ruth DeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in New York. She uses images from satellites to track how the world’s demands for food and other resources are changing the planet.  Ruth DeFries has worked throughout the tropics, including the Brazilian Amazon, India, and other countries, and has developed innovative…