Amy Auguston

Online activism, much like the millennials known for it, suffers from a bad reputation. Dubbed “slacktivism,” social media activism — from “liking” an organization on Facebook to sharing a video on Twitter — often has been dismissed as pointless.…

Shoppers on Madrid’s exclusive Gran Via were recently confronted with an unsettling sight: three women, adorned with designer bags and shoes, buried in rubble. The women were part of artist Yolanda Dominguez’s latest installation entitled “Fashion…

In one of the more interesting, and quietly radical, TED talks of recent memory, Angela Walker Patton, founder and executive director of the Richmond, Virginia-based organization Camp Diva, detailed her efforts to empower teen girls of African…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an avowed supporter of a woman’s right to choose, and one of the Supreme Court’s most liberal justices, so it was sobering to hear her recent criticism of the Roe v. Wade ruling of 1973 which effectively legalized elective…

When I first heard about the escape of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight from a decade of captivity in a Cleveland home, I was overjoyed for the freed women and their families. However, in the past 24 hours, as reporters interview…

The death toll from last week's collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory continues to climb, with more than 600 people killed according to most recent reports. A harsh spotlight has been shone on the frequently appalling conditions in which…

"If your wife or girlfriend doesn't want to have sex, it is okay to force her to do it." My colleague is reading out a series of declarative statements. We have asked the men in our training group — approximately 20 of them, ranging in age from…

For spectators of both global development and popular culture, the past two weeks have been particularly fascinating. After a four-year absence, Madonna returned to Malawi, where her much-beleaguered charity claims to have been building schools — or…