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American Aristocracy
By Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn
Researchers have found that … in countries around the world, the accumulation of wealth also often leads to accumulation of political power that is then harnessed to multiply that wealth. Indeed, that’s what we’re seeing in America.
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The Declaration of Independence
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. For all the high ideals he provided the document and our country, he was also, like the majority of signatories to the Declaration, a slave owner. There were also ardent abolitionists in the group that signed the document, but
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Mockingbird Players: An Excerpt from Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson
I was in my late twenties and about to start my fourth year at the SPDC when I met Walter McMillian. His case was one of the flood of cases I’d found myself frantically working on after learning of a growing crisis in Alabama. The state had nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest-growing
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The Core of the Fight: The Continued Struggle for Equal Voting Rights in America
By Stacey Abrams
Voting is an act of faith. It is profound. In a democracy, it is the ultimate power. Through the vote, the poor can access financial means, the infirm can find health care supports, and the burdened and heavy-laden can receive a measure of relief from a social safety net that serves all.
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Accountable Leadership
By Vince Molinaro
It is time to stop settling and tolerating mediocrity from our leaders. We need leaders to be truly accountable.
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The Criminalization and Enslavement of the Poor
By Ben Crump
Slavery was officially abolished in America more than 150 years ago, but the desire to replace its cheap labor source and funnel finances into private for-profit prisons has given rise to an immoral system that consciously and unconsciously criminalizes and imprisons Black and brown Americans.
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My Racist Introduction
By Ibram X Kendi
"After taking this grueling journey to the dirt road of antiracism, humanity can come upon the clearing of a potential future: an antiracist world in all its imperfect beauty. It can become real if we focus on power instead of people, if we focus on changing policy instead of groups of people. It’s possible
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7 “Primitive” Qualities for Finding Meaning in Your Work
By Marco Greenberg
This radical work-life imbalance makes it more urgent than ever that our work truly give us meaning. It should focus the mind on a critical question: is our work fulfilling?
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Trauma Stewardship
By Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
Trauma always creates a ripple effect, the same as when someone throws a stone into a still pond. The initial impact creates repercussions that expand almost infinitely, reaching and having an effect on many people who didn’t experience the blows firsthand. The shockwaves soon move beyond individual
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The Rituals of Concentration
By Stefan Van Der Stigchel
Sometimes a ritual is exactly what you need to get yourself fully into concentration mode.
The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu, and Michelle Sriwongtong. In the summer of 2005, ChangeThis was turned over to 800-CEO-READ. In addition to selling and writing about books, they kept ChangeThis up and running as a standalone website for 14 years. In 2019, 800-CEO-READ became Porchlight, and we pulled ChangeThis together with the rest of our editorial content under the website you see now. We remain committed to the high-design quality and independent spirit of the original team that brought ChangeThis into the world.