Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
- Details
- Written by: Beverly B. Palmer
“Climate change is a hoax,” my cousin said during a family birthday party. “I saw on Twitter it’s just a way to get people to buy expensive electric cars.” I sighed while thinking, “How can he be so misinformed?”
- Details
- Written by: Alainna Liloia
Arab women, long relegated to the private sphere by law and social custom, are gaining new access to public life.
- Details
- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
This election in 2020 will undoubtedly come down to the turn out and the voting pattern of women.
- Details
- Written by: Christian Jarrett
The use of trigger warnings has since spread. The warnings have become another battlefield in the culture wars, with many seeing them as threatening free speech and the latest sign of ‘political correctness’ gone mad.
- Details
- Written by: NativeHope.org
There are always two sides of a story. Unfortunately, when it comes to the history of Thanksgiving, generations of Americans have been taught a one-sided history in homes and schools.
- Details
- Written by: Michael Messner
If President Donald Trump had gotten his way, the nation would have celebrated the centennial of the World War I armistice last year on Nov. 11 with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C.
- Details
- Written by: María Celeste Wagner and Pablo J. Boczkowski
As the country looks ahead to President Donald Trump’s possible impeachment proceedings, as social scientists, we anticipate that not only will the Americans’ opinions be polarized, but so will their emotions.
- Details
- Written by: Brian D. Sites, MD, MS and Matthew A. Davis, MPH, PhD
The longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to use prescription opioids, according to new research.
- Details
- Written by: Serbulent Turan
Political scientists have historically been bad at foreseeing the most important developments. Few of us guessed the end of the Cold War; almost no one saw the Arab Spring coming.
- Details
- Written by: Bridget Marshall
“Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used to deride everything from impeachment inquiries and sexual assault investigations to allegations of corruption.
- Details
- Written by: Christopher D. Lynn
I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its tail quivered, I felt a sympathetic twitch in my leg. Su’a Sulu’ape Paulo III, the sixth-generation Samoan hand-tap tattoo master leaning over me, paused to see if my movement was due to pain.
- Details
- Written by: Malinda Maynor Lowery
More and more towns and cities across the country are electing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an alternative to – or in addition to – the day intended to honor Columbus’ voyages.
- Details
- Written by: Lindsay Grace
Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns.
- Details
- Written by: Robert B. Talisse
When people try to explain why the United States is so politically polarized now, they frequently refer to the concept of “echo chambers.”
- Details
- Written by: Katherine Bullock
The conversation over Justin Trudeau’s blackface had widened to a conversation about anti-Blackness in Canada, and stereotypes of Muslims and anti-Arab racism.
- Details
- Written by: C. Thi Nguyen
Pick any of the big topics of the day – Brexit, climate change or Trump’s immigration policies – and wander online.
- Details
- Written by: Alexandra Minna Stern
White nationalists around the world are appropriating the language of environmentalism.
- Details
- Written by: Mark Clague
One of the most powerful, searing renditions of the national anthem ever recorded, Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Woodstock anthem, almost never happened.
- Details
- Written by: J.M. Opal
The vicious ideology that allegedly drove a gunman to kill 22 people in El Paso, Texas could be traced back to a tiny island on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea.
- Details
- Written by: Katie Bohn
While “freedom songs” were key in giving motivation and comfort to those fighting for equal rights in the Civil Rights Movement, music may have also helped empower black women to lead
- Details
- Written by: Karen Douglas
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on.
