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: InnerSelf Staff
Far from the corrosive political circus unfolding in Washington, DC, local citizen groups are improving conditions for the people in their own backyards.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
With help from activist manual written by former congressional staffers, Republicans face angry crowds in home states
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- Written by: Neal Gabler, BillMoyers.com
Anyone who has ever pitched a movie or television idea in Hollywood knows the tyranny of the “high concept."
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- Written by: Cat Johnson, Shareable
Community groups have the power to create long-lasting change. Ioby, an organization based in New York City, New York, that works on neighborhood mobilization, recently published its "Recipes for Change" toolkit.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech in Harlem’s Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with “the fierce urgency of now.”
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- Written by: Aly Colón, Washington and Lee University
News consumers today face a flood of fake news and information. Distinguishing between fact and fiction has become increasingly challenging.
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- Written by: Henry Giroux, BillMoyers.com
In a strange but revealing way, popular culture and politics intersected soon after Donald Trump first assumed the presidency of the United States: George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, surged as the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon both in the United States and Canada.
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- Written by: Hannah Norman, YES! Magazine
The Women’s March on Washington illustrated what a wide variety of issues women will have in the years ahead with Donald Trump.
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- Written by: Sarah Love McCoy
How do we listen and learn from each other, with our very different experiences and beliefs about life, yet find a way through it to a place of love and healing?
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
After the inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington, what comes next? To make real change, we’ll need to build power where we live.
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- Written by: Martin Luther King, Jr.
The I Have A Dream speech is the crown jewel of the 20th century. Given before 250,000 souls on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, it is called the defining moment of the US Civil Rights movement. It is the speech by which all other great speeches must be measured. Its haunting rhythm towards the end of the speech has an almost musical sound and feel.
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Roosevelt delivered this speech to Congress as a "State Of The Union" 11 months before the United States entered World War II. Memorably, in the second half of the speech, FDR lists the benefits of democracy. He lists these as Freedom Of Speech, Freedom Of Worship, Freedom From Want, and Freedom From Fear. The first two freedoms are guaranteed by the US Constitution and the last two are still in controversy to this day.
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- Written by: Steven Harper, BillMoyers.com
Americans are living through the dangerous effort to normalize the abnormal candidate who won the presidency with a record popular vote deficit of nearly 3 million ballots.
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- Written by: Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams
Six confirmation hearings, Trump presser, and 'vote-o-rama' all scheduled for same day.
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- Written by: Michael Winship and Bill Moyers
Mark Twain noted that man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to. He also believed that “public office is private graft.”
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- Written by: Deborah Bach, University of Washington
An outdated legal structure at international organizations such as the United Nations has made it possible for corporate entities to infiltrate non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
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- Written by: Kathy Kiely, BillMoyers.com
If our first fake news election turns out to mark the end of democracy as we know it, I think I can pretty precisely date when the end began.
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- Written by: Peter Dreier, BillMoyers.com
Many Americans would not be surprised if on Jan. 20 Vladimir Putin administers the oath of office to Donald Trump, the Ku Klux Klan youth choir regales the inaugural crowd with a stirring rendition of “Dixie,
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- Written by: Mark Trahant, YES! Magazine
Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil uber alles mentality of the Trump administration.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Historically, tyrants have tried to control the press using 4 techniques that, worryingly, Donald Trump is already using.
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- Written by: Sandra Steingraber, BillMoyers.com
"For many years, public-spirited citizens throughout the country have been working for the conservation of the natural resources, realizing their vital importance to the nation."
