Sara Herschander

Every great new discovery has to start somewhere.  Penicillin was born out of moldy petri dishes followed by years of experimental testing. The Spice Girls started with an open audition, months of ...

In recent weeks, Minnesota has borne the brunt of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration strategy, with federal officials detaining thousands of people, from preschoolers to, occasionall...

Today, no American tragedy is complete without a GoFundMe.  It took less than a week to raise over $1.5 million for the family of Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Cus...

What happens when you merge the world’s most toxic social media cesspool with the world’s most unhinged, uninhibited, and intentionally “spicy” AI chatbot? It looks a lot like what we’re seeing pla...

Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt.  Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion worth of debt. Enough debt to give everyone in the world a check for $3,750. Or to ...

When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless. We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too big, too distant, and too intractable an issue for us...

The world is a much better place than it used to be, especially for young children.  Insecticide-treated mosquito nets and novel treatments have made malaria much less deadly for millions of kids. ...

When billionaire Michael Dell was 8 years old, he opened his first savings account.  Every time that young Michael forked a quarter over to the bank teller, he felt a rush from the “power of compou...

Every time a MacKenzie Scott grantee talks about receiving one of her multimillion-dollar gifts, there is always a hint of the same bashfulness, the same reverence, and the same glee.  Their eyes l...