Tina Rosenberg

Parents are more crucial than ever to their children’s education. Here are two programs, thousands of miles apart, that have helped get them involved.

Campaign volunteers go door to door to rouse voters on Election Day. Now some stay outside polling places, asking voters to text friends to join in.

At least 60 district attorneys have come to see incarceration as destructive, racist, expensive and ineffective. But can they persuade their own staffs?

Getting medication long meant seeing a licensed provider. Now a strategy for evading Covid-19 makes treatment available via the web.

A way has been found to enrich the unfortified flour that Tanzanians eat as a staple. But the pandemic is getting in the way.

Getting ready for a disaster is still a tiny part of the world’s response to the likelihood of one. But some governments and officials are starting to plan well in advance.

A decades-old campaign that knew how to talk to teenagers persuaded millions of them to never start smoking. Can it now persuade them never to misuse opioids?

The Iraqi comedian’s TV show is fueling demonstrations in his home country.

In a year of many dispiriting headlines, Fixes still found the better angels of human nature at work.

Finally, a charity rating agency is measuring how effectively money is used.

Civil discourse and bipartisanship in America aren’t dead. At least when the subject is criminal justice reform.

To improve community structures with citizens’ input, the United Nations uses a computer game inspired by Lego.

With a lawyer, most unaccompanied immigrant children don’t get deported. But most don’t have one, and go before a judge alone.

On the streets of New York, the city supports a program, first used in Zimbabwe, of having peers offer an ear to people who are suffering but are not in a position to seek professional therapy.

States are making voting more accessible by allowing citizens to vote at home.

A bakery epitomizes a Zen-inspired approach to hiring: Don’t ask about an applicant’s past. It’s the future that counts.

Police in New York and other cities are turning to a bot to imitate women selling sex to men looking to buy it. It’s a new tool in the drive to break up trafficking rings.

Political organizers have at their hands a timeless way to get young people to cast ballots: Link them with friends who will do the same. Now there are apps to help.

Australia seems to have found a way to entice Big Pharma into making essential new medicines affordable. Why can’t the United States?

Technology engineers have long served big profitable businesses well, while apps focusing on what more altruistic organizations need remained sparse. But that’s changing.