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The captain of a Finnish icebreaker looks out from the bridge as it sails into floating sea ice on the Victoria Strait while traversing the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in July 2017. The waterways of the Arctic are of particular interest to non-Arctic jurisdictions like China and the European Union. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

April 8, 2018

Why the Arctic isn’t a ‘global commons’

Danita Catherine Burke, University of Southern Denmark

The recent Arctic Council meeting in Finland shows there's still avid interest in developing the Arctic. Some are arguing the entire region should be considered a 'global commons.'

Are research nonprofits holding up their end of the tax-exempt bargain? Will Hart

July 19, 2017

How to make sure we all benefit when nonprofits patent technologies like CRISPR

Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan

Holding patents can be a lucrative and powerful position to be in. Here's a proposal for how nonprofit patent holders can do more for the common good – and live up to their end of the tax break bargain.

Jeff Bezos (right), now the world’s second-richest person, is charting a different course for his philanthropy than Bill Gates (left), the richest, and Warren Buffett (center), who has fallen to third place. Reuters/Jim Tanner

June 27, 2017

What Jeff Bezos gets wrong (and right) with his populist philanthropy

Ted Lechterman, Stanford University McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society

Amazon's founder turned to Twitter to crowdsource ideas for his charitable giving. This populist approach and his preference for short-term results set Jeff Bezos apart from other mega-donors.

Pope Francis giving a TED talk. TED Conference

April 28, 2017

Two key takeaways from the pope’s TED talk

Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University

What Pope Francis did in his surprise TED talk was to relate the social message of Catholicism to people’s real lives.

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