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: Scott Shackelford
Hacking into voting machines remains far too easy. The vulnerabilities are not just theoretical. They have been exploited around the world, such as in South Africa, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the Philippines
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- Written by: Bernd Reiter
Around the globe, citizens of many democracies are worried that their governments are not doing what the people want.
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- Written by: Lisa Fazio
When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes – videos that appear real but have actually been created using powerful video editing algorithms.
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- Written by: Ariane Burgess
We are living with a confluence of crisis points that affect us all. We may think we can hole up in our homes and get on with our lives, keeping everything that is unpleasant from affecting or harming us. It is inevitable, however, that in some way or other, the crisis will arrive at our doorstep.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Bad enough that a tyrant is destroying American democracy. Now an oligarch is trying to buy the presidency.
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- Written by: Gary W. Gallagher
It has become common to say that the United States in 2020 is more divided politically and culturallythan at any other point in our national past.
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- Written by: Sarah Burns
There are not many examples of so-called “stolen elections” in U.S. history, but the ones that had irregularities and were controversial, in 1824 and 2000, had an oversized impact on the decades that followed.
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- Written by: Timothy Joseph
Along with the senatorial fealty that was again on display, there was another development that links the era of the Roman Republic’s transformation into an autocratic state with the ongoing political developments in the United States.
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- Written by: Jodie Jackson
Over the years, many people have doubted the ability of individuals and organisations to bring about positive change in the newsroom; they have said things like this to me: ‘The news is the way that it is; you are never going to change it.’ But as playwright George Bernard Shaw so eloquently put it...
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- Written by: Common Dreams
Can any of us really have the confidence that Donald Trump will put his personal interests ahead of the national interests? You know you can't count on him to do that. That's the sad truth.
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- Written by: Edwin Amenta
In the run-up to its January 14 debate in Des Moines, Iowa, the Democratic National Committee called on private polling firms to conduct more polls.
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- Written by: Kawser Ahmed
Countering extremist anti-immigrant and racist attitudes and recruiting in Manitoba requires new approaches.
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- Written by: Pierre Pradervand
I believe there is no authentic spirituality where there is no healing of one’s community and of the world – just as social, environmental and political activism without a spiritual dimension can easily lead to anger, bitterness and burnout.
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- Written by: Joe Curnow and Anjali Helferty
Millions of youth have participated in climate strikes, negotiations, press conferences and events, demanding urgent climate action this year.
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- Written by: Benjamin Bowman
A record breaking 3.85 million people applied to register to vote in this election campaign, including thousands of first-time voters.
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- Written by: Fraser McMillan
The conventional wisdom holds that politicians can’t be trusted to keep their promises, yet decades of research across numerous advanced democracies shows the opposite.
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- Written by: Jodie Jackson
Negativity has become a key indicator for how newsworthy a story is considered to be, not only by the industry but also by us, the consumers. And many news professionals and news consumers will tell you that there is good reason to report bad news.
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- Written by: Margot Young
Frustrated by government failure to respond to the climate crisis adequately, citizens are taking to the courts.
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- Written by: Elizabeth C. Tippett
When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she was depicted as “Mrs. Satan” in a political cartoon.
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- Written by: Timothy D. Lytton
Mass shootings have become a routine occurrence in America. Gun-makers have long refused to take responsibility for their role in this epidemic. That may be about to change.
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- Written by: Carl Rhodes
In November 2018, 20,000 Google employees across the world walked out of work. They were protesting the ways in which their employer had failed to address sexual harassment in the workplace.
