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- GOOD News: Prohibit This!Today
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Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. To celebrate the repeal of what could arguably be called the silliest Constitutional amendment in American history, Michael Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan and Associate Dean of Studies at New York’s Bard High School Early College, visits the GOOD Newsroom for a historical look at the United States’ 13 years of teetotalism.
(And who’s that dapper mixologist in Ye Olde GOODE News Pub? Why, it’s Floyd of…
- GOOD News: Worst Case ScenarioYesterday
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In the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, tensions are rising between India and neighboring Pakistan. Enmity between two nuclear powers: that’s never a good thing. The Ploughshares Fund’s Joe Cirincione gives us a look at what nuclear conflict in South Asia might mean for the region–and for the rest of the world.
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- JailbirdsDecember 3
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There are currently more than 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States. What does that look like, exactly? That’s equivalent to putting the combined populations of Miami, Las Vegas, and Minneapolis behind bars. Why is our penal system broken? How do we stack up against other countries? We take a closer look at prisons in our latest Transparency.
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The Sentencing Project; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The U.S. Department of Justice; The Prison Policy Initiative…
- GOOD News: My So Cold LifeDecember 3
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A study published in the December issue of the Journal of Biogeography reports that the polar South Orkney Island archipelago is teeming with fauna and boasts a greater number of unique species than the Galapagos Islands. Antarctic starfish? Who knew? Dave Barnes, co-author of the study, calls in from the British Antarctic Survey.
(Footage courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey)
British Antarctic Survey
Marine, intertidal, freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity of an isolated polar archipelago (Journal of Biogeography)
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- GOOD News: Like America, But LouderDecember 2
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It’s official: the United States is in a recession, and has been for the whole of 2008, according to a report released yesterday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The effects of that recession are being felt across the board as consumers cut back on discretionary spending, corporations are cutting ad budgets, and industrial production is being curtailed. One flashpoint for the crisis: NASCAR, where as many as 1,000 layoffs are expected before the…
