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Will Teach for Food: How Teachers Have Gone From Thriving to Thrifting

For my grandmother, teaching was a triumph. For my mother, it was a good job. For me, it could be a dead end.

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Free Radicals: Two Teenagers' Year As Colombian Hostages

When a pair of American college students were kidnapped by communist revolutionaries, the young rebels accidentally found their cause.

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GOOD Works Administration

Posters in the style of FDR's Works Progress Administration, updated for the 21st century.

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The Shopping Cart Index: What Our Grocery Bills Reveal About the Food Economy

The trade-off I’d resigned myself to—nutritious and expensive versus affordable and crappy—turned out to be an illusion.

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Laos Vegas: A Chinese Entrepreneur Crosses the Border to Build His Gambling Empire

The story behind the “special economic zone”—a stretch of Laotian land run by Chinese investors—that now houses a casino

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Minimum Rage

Will a generation of accidental career waiters hold out for "real" jobs—or fight for the ones they have now?

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Shuffling the Lineup: How One Man Is Redesigning the Witness ID Process

How one man is redesigning the witness identification process to prevent wrongful convictions.

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Introducing GOOD Issue 026: Beg, Borrow, or Steal

Our latest issue is all about how real people are getting by in this economy.

The Way We Get By

We respect that everyone has a side hustle. A side hustle to the side hustle.

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The Shape of Things to Come

A filmmaker documents environmental and economic collapse—and wrestles with the future of civilization.