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A Tale of Three Bishops

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, laid the mass murders of Christians at the feet of same-gender married couples and Americans last week: "I have stood by gravesides in Africa of a group of...

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Four Ways Mindfulness Can Make You a More Successful Entrepreneur

My path to becoming a social entrepreneur was an accidental one. I had spent many years as a doctor specialising in the field of psychiatry. In order to manage the stress of my work, I turned to...

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I'm Climbing Everest for a Cause

My name is Kuntal Joisher and I am about to climb Mt. Everest. Yes, I know hundreds of people attempt to summit the highest point in the world every year, but I'd like to think my journey is special....

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You Can Better The World By Watching Cat Videos. Seriously

Get ready for the best news ever. You may want to sit down ... are you ready? Okay, here it is: You can save the world by watching CAT VIDEOS! We know what you're probably saying: "I'm already watching...

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As An Activist, Sometimes It Feels Like I'm Spinning In a Hamster Wheel

In much of my feminist writing today, I am constantly reminded that some of the earliest books on topics like gender inequality, beauty standards and the racial divide could have been written today....

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Tell HuffPost Live What 'Boston Strong' Means To You

Three runners preparing for the 2014 Boston Marathon joined HuffPost Live on April 18 to share their powerful definitions of what it means to be "Boston Strong," and we want to hear more. On Monday,...

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The New HHS Secretary and America's Neglected Infections of Poverty

In her decade-long tenure at the Gates Foundation, Sylvia Mathews Burwell learned a lot about the close links between disease, poverty, and development. To be sure, the new Health and Human Services...

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Boston Marathon Survivor Plans To Run Marathon Again

Cassandra Arsenault isn't letting the terror of last year's Boston Marathon prevent her from running this year. "You have this adrenaline rush throughout the whole race," the television journalist...

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This Small Town Guy Landed His Dream Job In The Coolest Way

Bryan Donaldson's career took an unexpected turn last fall, all thanks to Twitter. Since October 2011, Donaldson, who had been working in IT for the past 20 years, had been tweeting a few jokes a day...

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Watch These Gorillas Go On An Egg-Cellent Easter Hunt

This is not your typical Easter egg hunt. Citing the upcoming holiday, this week the Cincinnati Zoo put on a series of animal Easter egg hunts. But the one that stole our hearts and seemed to be the...

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Students Give Haircuts To Homeless People, Help Them Start Spring Fresh

It's about more than just a haircut. Students at Vanguard School of Cosmetology, a Paul Mitchell partner school, used their scissors for good Wednesday when they visited the New Orleans Mission, WDSU...

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Making the Safety Net Smarter

Penned by Code for America staffers Jack Madans and Lauren Reid. In order to live, we each need a few basic things: food, water, shelter. These are the fundamentals for individual health, and the...

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Scott Campbell Talks Elton John AIDS Foundation and LGBT Equality (AUDIO)

This week I talked with Scott Campbell, Executive Director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has been identified by Funders for LGBTQ Issues as the largest funder of programs for black lesbian,...

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LGBT Kids Need to Know They're Not Alone Online

Like a lot of gay teenagers, I was a drama geek. I grew up in the time when when Rent was everything, but I was an old-school junkie. Give me Ethel Merman over Adele Dazeem any day. One of my favorite...

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Eckhart Tolle Shares A Powerful Lesson About Holding Onto Negativity (VIDEO)

Eckhart Tolle has shared many life lessons over the course of his longstanding career as a spiritual teacher and author, but a simple parable about two monks illustrates one of his most unforgettable....

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Green Service: Creating Opportunity and Protecting Our Planet

Like many transitioning service members, Mike Bremer was having a tough time finding work after he came home. Then he joined AmeriCorps, serving on the all veterans fire team with the Southwest...

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Truth In Advertising and Misleading a Generation

"Every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese...

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What Type Of Pot Smoker Are You?

Like snowflakes or THC crystals*, no two pot smokers are truly the same. But even in a group as diverse as marijuana users, certain patterns do emerge. For example, does your pot use lead to endless...

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Holy Days, Blood Moon Nights And A Dragon: Week In Photos, April 13 - 20

Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...

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Clowns Without Borders Brings Its Act To Conflict Zones To Let Kids Just Be Kids

Clowns, acrobats, aerial artists and refugee camps. One of these things is not like the other. But nonprofit Clowns Without Borders is looking to upend that line of thinking. From conflict zones to...

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