Quality of life

A pilot project opens the door to squeezing people into spaces as small as 250 square feet. Beneficial innovation or retrograde lowering of living standards?

A pilot project opens the door to squeezing people into spaces as small as 250 square feet. Beneficial innovation or retrograde lowering of living standards?

Limited debate keeps public from knowing the full scope of the potential health benefits it is being asked to give up.

Limited debate keeps public from knowing the full scope of the potential health benefits it is being asked to give up.

As the number of elderly Americans grows, some suggest that they are going to have to make due with less support. But many older people already face increasing isolation as the years go on; they live in fear of losing their homes. One recent response: a "Village model" where members and non-member volunteers join in an organized system of mutual aid.

Proposed short-term solutions for Detroit's immediate financial crisis likely to exacerbate long-term problems.

According to Remapping Debate's preliminary inquires, a range of factors have conspired to make us, in general, treat both family and strangers with less generosity of spirit than we once did. A relative lack of kindness would be disconcerting in any time, but it has special resonance at a time of pressing economic hardship and pronounced inequality. The diminution of kindness calls out for further study and reporting.