BEDFORD, VA – A hot shower and a clean pair of clothes — a lot of us don’t give it a second thought. “The only time I felt like a human was when I got to take a shower once a week,” Shower-n-Suds ...

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Early Tuesday morning, 11 men and a woman stood on the concrete steps outside Anchorage's Downtown Soup Kitchen. The night before, they'd slept in tents, in cars, abandoned buildings and on shelter ...

Denise Caine once lived in a big four-bedroom house in downtown Antioch and worked in a bank. But on a recent Saturday, the 52-year-old mother of six was standing in a line for some free socks, a hot ...

Showers and washing machines waste a lot of water. One solution: recycling water from showers into washing machines. It’s not as dirty as it sounds. It’s the greenest clean: a shower that reuses water ...

When you’ve voted, donated, volunteered, and screamed into the void, what’s left? Leading up to Election Day, Slate is offering a series of Low-Stakes Debates as brief respites for your all-consuming ...