This week, while everybody was watching videos of a meteor in Russia, a larger asteroid passed by the earth. It might hit us next time it...

I was interested to hear a friend advocate a tool against world poverty that I hadn't thought of: immigration. The World Bank  estimat...

I was interested to see this end-of-year charity contest : you tell how you would allocate money between GiveWell's top charities, and t...

Charity recommendations My favorite charity evaluator, GiveWell, has announced its recommended charities for the year. Last year's p...

I'm a social worker in a jail. Today one of the inmates showed an untrained but intricate drawing to my colleague. "This is amaz...

Last time , I argued that those of us in rich countries can help more by earning money to give than by traveling to poor countries. But wha...

I was talking to a friend about ways to help the world, and he said something that surprised me: “I sometimes feel guilty about doing little...