Many donors want to fight diseases that have affected them personally—and that irritates Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of GiveWell, a group that analyzes the effectiveness of charities for donors.

Several million people around the world have participated in pro-Hamas demonstrations since the Islamist organization’s atrocities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Nearly every major city has been ...

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego said he will be working to make Arizona residents and congressional leaders aware of the human suffering that Republicans' proposed Medicaid cuts could cause. Gallego, a ...

One of my first volunteer experiences as a retiree was to support the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Founded at the behest of Albert Einstein, a rather famous refugee, the IRC is ...

Editor: In his previous term, one of Trump’s actions against humanity was the separation of families at the southern border. No, it wasn’t done like the Obama administration. Now, even more people are ...

In an age of constant conflict, war no longer shocks the global conscience. Images of destroyed cities, displaced families and mass graves appear daily, only to be replaced by the next crisis. This ...

But to me, the early return of Haitians and others to the dangers of their home countries is like dropping people we once saved from drowning back in the middle of the C.J. Brown Reservoir. I don’t ...

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real. This is the ...

U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., is raising awareness about the potential consequences of Republican-proposed Medicaid cuts in Arizona. Community health-care leaders warn that cuts could lead to ...