The leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. is medical debt. A new fund has taken up arms against this problem by buying up defaulted debts—and then not collecting them.

Last year, the Violence Against Women Act wasn’t reauthorized for the first time since its inception in 1994, but there are signs that the tide may be shifting back the other way.

Matt Damon has announced that he isn’t going to the bathroom anymore. What does that mean and why should you care?

Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is healthy enough to leave the hospital and now has a charitable fund.

With over 100 million views, Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 was a viral video sensation last year but the related movement fizzled out. What motivates those who have stuck with it?

Immigrant advocacy groups weigh in on what they like and don’t like about the comprehensive immigration reform framework unveiled by a bipartisan group of senators.

Chinese workers are using creative techniques to call attention to the issue of unpaid wages.

Where does the Tea Party go from here to revive its identity, brand, and image?

Should direct advocacy groups worry about the FBI’s surveillance of Occupy as domestic terrorists?

I have been speaking a lot lately and my message is that this next era is ours for the taking.

Even the Tea Party’s all-but-libertarian former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey is appalled by massive secret campaign donations. “I have never seen anything like this before,” he says.

Dick Armey is leaving the Tea Party-affiliated FreedomWorks after a dispute on nonprofit governance and ethics—though it’s hard to imagine recent elections didn’t play a role.

Approximately 2,500 dairy farmers from across Europe turned high-powered hoses full of milk on the European Parliament in Brussels to protest quotas and milk prices.

Foreign Policy’s list of the top 100 “global thinkers” includes plenty of our heroes and heroines.

Hostess has blamed workers and the unions that represented them for putting a final nail in the coffin of the corporation that brought us the beloved Twinkie. There’s a lesson or two for nonprofits in this story.

Some members of the Consumer Electronics Association have suggested that the trade association support the Occupy Sandy effort, but the idea is seen as too politically charged.

The blending of nonprofit activism and hip-hop isn’t new, but until rapper Twice Thou (a.k.a. Antonio Ennis), we haven’t seen much specifically directed at the foreclosure crisis.

In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Belgium, workers took to the streets at the urging of the European Trade Union Confederation in a “day of action” against austerity measures.

Definitions of problems and histories are enormously susceptible to people’s belief systems and worldviews, and so it goes with Wikipedia’s article on Superstorm Sandy.

A documentary about Anonymous has been released online, though the filmmaker says it was tough to call it quits since the hacktivist network’s story continues to evolve apace.

An online petition that has gathered more than 38,000 signatures on Change.org calls for nominating 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous efforts.

The University of California-Davis has reached a preliminary $1 million settlement after student demonstrators were pepper-sprayed by police in an incident that rallied the Occupy movement.

Tea Party Senate candidate Ted Cruz, seen as likely to win in Texas, calls the current campaign finance system “ridiculous” and favors complete disclosure of all political campaign donors.

From the boosters to the party poopers, nonprofits playing the game at the Republican convention in Tampa (or at the upcoming Democratic convention in Charlotte) know they’re play-acting.

Despite many requests, the International Olympic Committee has so far refused to include a minute of silence at this year’s Olympics for the Israeli Olympians murdered at the Munich ’72 Olympic Games.

Did you ever wonder why so many nonprofits were so reticent to speak out against Wall Street bankers during the heyday of the Occupy Wall Street movement? Check the bank’s charitable giving and decide for yourself.

Why has Tamira Thayne spent 729 hours in the past 10 years chained to a doghouse? She’s doing it for the dogs.

The “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops looks to be readymade for use in this year’s Republican electoral narrative, according to some observers.

The quixotic campaign of George Martinez, who goes by the rap name Rithm, is somewhat emblematic of the challenge facing the Occupy movement: what is it, and what can it be?

The nonprofit Better Markets aims to make sure our financial system “never needs a taxpayer bailout or threatens to plunge our economy into chaos again.”