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Carrie Joy Grimes’ new book, The Joy of Money, is a guide to building real financial security, helping you “take the right next step, then the next one after that.” The latest addition to our ChangeThis series is adapted from the book and explains how those steps range from taking care of your own money to taking collective action to change the economy so that it works better for all of us.
Jodi Kantor—New York Times investigative reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service—was asked to deliver the undergraduate commencement speech at her alma mater in 2025. The anxiety about the future she encountered there was palpable, and she has since authored an entire book for those entering the workforce entitled How to Start. The latest addition to the ChangeThis series is adapted from the book, laying out the landscape graduates are entering and encouraging them to “not give up before [they] even start.”
In October 2023, TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi and physiologist Keith Diaz issued a challenge to NPR’s listeners: Try taking movement breaks. The Body Electric Project was launched. The latest addition to our ChangeThis series shares some of its findings.
"Instead of betting that social investment will improve corporate social behavior,” writes Brad Swanson, “we should direct our efforts toward the political process." The latest addition to our ChangeThis series looks at the inadequacy of ESG as a way to solve social and environmental problems, and where we should focus our efforts as citizens if we want things to change.
Leah Ruppanner's new book, Drained, helps women stop blaming themselves for what broken systems, bad policies, and outdated workplace practices have wrought. In the latest addition to our ChangeThis series, she explains how to use sociology as a superpower to "tear up the scripts that no longer work for you, and move through the world with less nonsense and more confidence."
