Yesterday, in Mark Zuckerberg's first public appearance since Facebook's IPO, he emphasized that Facebook is a "mission-driven" company, deflecting shareholder criticism by saying that they "don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services." Zuckerberg's remark highlights the growing trend of tech startups driven by strong...

Imagine waking up in the room of someone you've never met. A stranger delivers your morning coffee, fixed just the way you like it. Then a personal tour guide arrives, another stranger ready to show you around her city. You both hop into a car borrowed from a neighbor, another...

For most of my life, I've specialized in working really hard without getting paid. This specialty seems inherent to many young people who seek to create social or environmental change; we spend countless hours fighting for the causes we love for little or no compensation and the rest of our...

I believe in climate change. I ride my bike everywhere, I work at a solar company, I buy organic and local when I can. I am young, liberal and idealistic. But I'm not an environmentalist. And I'm not alone.

Over the past decade the number of Americans who...

If you won the jackpot today, would you go back to work tomorrow? The question may sound absurd, but there are plenty of lottery winners who have done just that. There's a waitress in Florida who went back to making $400 per week the day after winning $1...

The House did something astounding recently. They a) passed a bill and b) passed it with nearly full bipartisan support. This miraculous bill, called the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, is a series of six bills tied together designed to make it easier for startups to gain access to...

One of lesser known perks of being 24 and still living at home is that everyone wants to give you career advice. Most of the time when my parent's friends do this I smile and nod politely, thinking to myself that I want their idea of a good job about...

Last week I wrote that traditional measures of success are self-destructing, leaving millennials with little more than splinters to guide our daunting transition to adulthood.

I suggested that instead of keeping these crumbling metrics, we should measure our success -- as a country and as individuals --...

There used to be a ladder to success. It was the college→good job→marriage→house→family→cushy retirement. Sure, not everyone made it, there were a few broken rungs near the bottom but that was the guiding light to the good life and enough people made it that it seemed within reach. A few...

The Occupy Wall Street movement began with a handful of protesters in mid-September. October found protesters "occupying" every continent but Antarctica. November promises to be a month of action, when the #Occupy movement turns their momentum into real societal change.

Tomorrow, national teach-ins for #OccupyColleges will begin...