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...Lehman Brothers, the shame of subprime mortgages and the brazen Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff. But even amid the Great Recession of 2009, people have been trading in their SUVs for Priuses, buying record amounts of fair-trade coffee and investing in socially responsible funds at higher rates than ever before. What we are discovering now, in the most uncertain economy since FDR's time, is that enlightened self-interest - call it a shared sense of responsibility - is good economics. (Read TIME's interview with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on service...
...looking at a concept as old as the Republic. Ever since colonists in Boston refused to buy British tea, Americans have wielded their economic clout as a weapon against - and, sadly, sometimes for - social injustice. In the U.S., the power of the purse is the most democratic power of all. The Quaker notion of doing well by doing good - popularized by Ben Franklin, the patron saint of social entrepreneurs - predated the predatory capitalism of the Gilded Age. Its revival is due in part to an Obama effect: as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama relentlessly touted green products and industry...
...first large Southern city to elect a black mayor in 1973, Atlanta has had African-American leadership ever since. However, this year, a white city council member is leading in polls over three black challengers, causing some to fret that her election could lead to a setback for a "black agenda" of racial and social justice...
...there ever was a Black political machine, it was headed by Maynard Jackson, who was elected as mayor at age 35 in 1973, served consecutive terms and a single term in the 1990s. He endorsed every winning candidate before his death in 2003. Now the "Jackson machine" is largely history, Atlanta political insiders tell TIME, its membership dispersed since Jackson left office...
...21st Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, a quick return to North America after a sojourn in Italy in 2006. No need to unpack the cold-weather clothes, because four months later, in the midst of winter in the southern hemisphere, will be the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ever since the International Olympic Committee decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games after 1992, the frozen sports have been played in the same year as the World Cup, giving fans two major events to watch...