November-December 2008

The route to a law that will help keep kids out of adult prisons.

A Miller-McCune interview with Bethany Klein of the University of Leeds, who's researching the increasingly close relationship between pop music and Madison Avenue.

Jock Brandis invented a low-cost, people-powered peanut sheller that could raise millions out of poverty around the world. Now, if someone would just come up with the money to distribute it.

A respected geochemical engineer proposes a new way to deal with toxic waste: Make it into shrines that people can work, shop and even live on.

Pepperdine University marketing professor Roy Adler helps U.S. businesses take some of the guesswork out of finding customers around the world.

Here's 10 examples of songs turned into ads, all influential, some successful.

There's a movement to restore voting rights to felons who've served their time. Whether you're for or against it likely depends on whether you're a Republican or a Democrat.

Two new proposals look to greatly increase the number of people who have adequate retirement plans, one by encouraging workers to save and the other by requiring them to.

Faced with a horrific drug problem, Vancouver is trying a radical experiment: Let junkies be junkies.

If we're going to rescue Wall Street, let's bail out the industrial Midwest, too.

Gritty Hammond, Ind., and 80 other cities in decline have a novel approach to economic development: They're attracting new residents by offering to pay for their children to attend college. But is a promise to pay tuition a growth strategy — or welfare for the middle class?

B Lab wants to separate companies that merely claim they are responsible from those that actually do good in the world. But can a logo really change the way America does business?

A documentary film warns that America's fiscal policies are a looming disaster as Wall Street melts down in real time.

A reader wonders whether Port of Anchorage project has earmarks of a boondoggle.

Coffee can be good for you. But what about monkey spit?