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: Riane Eisler
We have a choice. We can futilely try to protect ourselves and our families behind high walls, electric gates, etc., and turn a blind eye toward chronic human rights violations and an economic globalization that is not accountable to anyone. Or we can join with people and organizations from all the world's nations to lay the foundations for...
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- Written by: Bert Gambini, University at Buffalo
Customizing political news online to filter out what doesn’t align with your beliefs may have real-world negative effects on democracy.
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- Written by: Sandra Knispel, University of Rochester
Lost letters found in an old wooden crate inside a Connecticut barn are changing our view of the women’s suffrage movement in America.
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- Written by: Zahira Jaser, City, University of London
We have been told we now live in a post-truth era. The author and academic Ralph Keyes has described it as a time when we do not have just lies and truths, but also “statements that may not be true but we consider too benign to call false”.
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- Written by: Nora Caron
When I was ten years old and attending an elementary school called Mountainview School, my mother decided to have a little chat with my school director about the lack of trees on the school property. She argued that although the view of the mountain was lovely, the boring grassy lawn was not.
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- Written by: Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan
All Americans are lucky to live in a country brimming with public resources that everyone can share.
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- Written by: Colin Beavan, YES! Magazine
While we work to change the government, we can’t forget that we can also make big change ourselves by starting small and local.
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- Written by: Peter Buffett, YES! Magazine
Since the president sees himself foremost as a negotiator, perhaps it’s time for a negotiated revolution. Not to break us apart, but to bring us together.
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- Written by: Jim Patterson-, Vanderbilt University
Preserving the middle-class in America is necessary for the United States to continue as a democracy, warns Ganesh Sitaraman.
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- Written by: Stephen Hren
Rigidity in our beliefs and behaviors is the greatest threat to our own survival and the survival of all that we've come to love in civilization. Ultimately, the question we have to ask is if our systems of politics and economy are flexible enough to become sustainable...
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Trump and his White House don’t argue on the merits. They attack the institutions that come up with facts and arguments they don’t like.
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- Written by: Richard Lachmann, University at Albany, State University of New York
Donald Trump seems to think so. During his campaign for president, Trump returned again and again to his supposed success as a businessman and promised government programs “under budget and ahead of schedule.”
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- Written by: Robert Hieronimus and Laura E. Cortner
The Iroquois tell of a Peacemaker prophet who walked the lands many years ago trying to convince the warring nations to give up their blood feud ways. The first Clan Mother convinced her people to listen to the prophetic words, and they established the Great Law of Peace.
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- Written by: Harvey J. Kaye, BillMoyers.com
Donald Trump’s candidacy and now, presidency, have resurrected a public discourse not heard in this country since the Great Depression
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES Magazine
If Democrats want to retake government, they will need to do more than be the party that isn’t as bad as Trump, starting with closing the wealth gap.
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- Written by: George Lakey, YES! Magazine
Instead of falling to the Nazi party, Norway broke through to a social democracy. Their history shows us polarization is nothing to despair over. The key to avoiding fascism? An organized left with a strong vision and broad support.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
After intense political activism, an attack from the Trump administration on public lands has been shot down. The fight is far from over, but with the unexpected fightback of hunting and fishing groups, attempts to privatize federal land will meet new opposition.
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
When 500 refugees arrived in their community, residents of Zaandam were wary. But by the time the newcomers could apply for residency status in Europe, neighbors didn’t want them to leave.
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- Written by: Timothy Snyder, YES! Magazine
Have your passports ready, watch your language, and other advice from a Yale history professor.
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- Written by: Ervin Laszlo
Einstein told us that we cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking at which we were when we created the problems. He was right. Yet we are trying to do just that. We are fighting terrorism, poverty, criminality, cultural...
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- Written by: Claudia Horwitz, OpenDemocracy.net
Since coming out as queer at 45, I've been coming to understand what that means. “Queer” is a reclaimed word that aims to reject oppressive cultural formations of sex and gender identity. But to me it also means a new perspective on radical love.
