Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Joanne Bentley, University of Cape Town, et al
Now most grapple with the reality of trying to slow down catastrophic warming, and the difference between solutions and false hope.
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- Written by: Treva B. Lindsey, The Ohio State University
State-by-state battles are heating up in the wake of news that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overrule landmark rulings - Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey - and remove constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion.
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- Written by: Kenny Stancil
Fossil fuels did this, said one climate justice campaigner. Unless we ditch fossil fuels immediately in favor of a just, renewable-energy based system, heatwaves like this one will continue to become more intense and more frequent.
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
There is something about entrenched bureaucracies that transcend nations and cultures. When bureaucracies are confronted with unanticipated or new challenges, they freeze – like a deer facing headlights.
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- Written by: Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University
As global democracies lined up to condemn the actions of Russia in Ukraine, one country was less forthcoming in its criticism – and it was the largest democracy of them all: India.
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- Written by: Iain Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder
The next-generation hypersonic missiles that Russia, China and the U.S. are developing do pose a significant threat to national and global security.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
"While other high-income countries saw their life expectancy increase in 2021, recovering about half of their losses, U.S. life expectancy continued to fall," said Dr. Steven Woolf, co-author of the new study.
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- Written by: Julia Conley, Common Dreams
Organizers of the "Coal Baron Blockade" protest which targeted right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's coal empire Saturday afternoon reported that state police almost immediately began arresting campaigners who assembled in Grant Town, West Virginia.
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- Written by: Dean Baker
I rarely disagree with Paul Krugman’s columns, but every now and then he does say something that I have to issue with. In a column last month, Krugman complained about the enormous costs associated with China’s zero Covid policy.
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- Written by: Phil Galewitz
The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, is coping.
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- Written by: Joseph Wright, Penn State and Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Our research has found that once these type of leaders start repressing their own citizens at home or initiating conflicts abroad, there are few good ways to stop them.
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- Written by: Yuko Sato, Iowa State University
Yuko Sato, an associate professor of veterinary medicine who works with poultry producers, explains why so many birds are getting sick and whether the outbreak threatens human health.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
As progressives in Congress cast attention on Medicare for All legislation this week, research published Thursday highlighted that Americans are frustrated and struggling due to the for-profit U.S. healthcare system.
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Creative Commons
Among the events sparking concern was "freakish warming at Earth's South Pole" including "a mind-blowing" above-average reading at a research station.
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- Written by: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
CEOs can't stop bragging on corporate earnings calls about jacking up prices on consumers to keep their profits soaring
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- Written by: Simon Willcock, Bangor University et al
Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all known species.
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- Written by: Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University
Aristotle was one of the first to divide systems into those ruled by one, those ruled by a few and those ruled by many.
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- Written by: University of Arizona
Using lake sediment in the Tibetan Plateau, researchers show that permafrost at high elevations is more vulnerable than arctic permafrost under projected future climate conditions.
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- Written by: Jon Queally, Common Dreams
Government funding cuts to key pandemic programs forced by GOP opposition arrive as progressives in Congress renew their push for Medicare for All.
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- Written by: Ernest Agee, Purdue University
Studies do show tornadoes getting more frequent, more intense and more likely to come in swarms. The most intense and longest-lasting tornadoes tend to come from what are known as supercells
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- Written by: Mike Males, YES! Magazine
Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.
