On a crisp morning last October, a few dozen students with wildly diverse backgrounds and expertise filed into the red-brick building of Harvard Kennedy School. Three things united them: they were young, they wanted to do good and they were all staggeringly wealthy.... Read more about Harvard Course Teaches Rich Millennials How to Do Good

Either the Trump administration is trying to goad Iran into war or a war could come by accident because of the administration’s reckless policies, but the prospect of the current tensions in the Middle East escalating into a serious conflict are now dangerously high.
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 On the 50th anniversary of the moonwalk, former astronaut Ellen Ochoa reflects on the Apollo landing

Fifty years ago this summer, Neil Armstrong took his “giant leap for mankind” on the lunar surface. In his wake hundreds of others have flown into space, including Ellen Ochoa, a four-time shuttle astronaut who last year stepped down as director of the Johnson Space Center.
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