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: Robert Reich
It looks increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton, a self-described “progressive who likes to get things done,” will have her chance starting next January. But how much that’s progressive will she actually be able to get done?
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- Written by: Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University
Every election cycle, there are citizens who don’t like either of the candidates nominated by the two major political parties.
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- Written by: Jaime Alfaro, YES! Magazine
“The Federal District and Appeals Courts are willing to do what the Supreme Court wouldn’t do, which is acknowledge the reality that racial discrimination in voting persists today.”
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- Written by: Patrick Wiseman, Georgia State University
If Senate Republicans are true to their word, the next president of the United States will nominate Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement. Given the age of several other members of the Supreme Court and rumors of others’ retirement, it is likely the next president will make as many as four nominations.
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- Written by: James N. Gregory, University of Washington
As we watch Bernie Sanders’ supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why leftists are involved in the Democratic Party in the first place.
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- Written by: Kyle C. Kopko, Elizabethtown College
Supporters of Donald Trump’s campaign have recently employed an unorthodox tactic to secure additional votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio – forming a super PAC to mobilize Amish voters.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
“Without a border, we just don’t have a country,“ Donald Trump says repeatedly. For him, the biggest threats to American sovereignty are three-dimensional items that cross our borders, such as unwanted imports and undocumented immigrants.
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- Written by: David Daley, BillMoyers.com.
As Donald Trump enmeshed himself in a bitter fight with the parents of an American Muslim military hero — and Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and John McCain looked to put distance between themselves and their party’s presidential nominee — there’s actually worse news for Republicans
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- Written by: Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams
Pramila Jayapal, one of the standard-bearers for Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution movement, won a decisive victory in the primary race for Washington's 7th Congressional District Tuesday night and will advance to the November general election.
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- Written by: Nick Prevenas, University of Arizona
Political scholars and pundits have called the 2016 election cycle the most tumultuous and hostile in recent memory.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton said the nation was at “a moment of reckoning.”
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- Written by: Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Following the hack of Democratic National Committee emails and reports of a new cyberattack against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, worries abound that foreign nations may be clandestinely involved in the 2016 American presidential campaign.
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- Written by: Adam Quinn, University of Birmingham
Donald Trump is not a normal American presidential nominee, and there has been very little normal about the Republican convention that has now officially confirmed his nomination.
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- Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine
Bernie Sanders has the best policies. But Hillary Clinton has the chops to advance a progressive agenda—if we make her.
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- Written by: Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University
You’ve probably heard the popular aphorism “to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.” But you might not know who first said it.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Does Hillary Clinton understand that the biggest divide in American politics is no longer between the right and the left, but between the anti-establishment and the establishment?
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- Written by: Nick Fischer, Monash University
Donald Trump is now the Republican nominee for president of the United States and millions of people are asking: “How could this happen?”Donald Trump is now the Republican nominee for president of the United States and millions of people are asking: “How could this happen?”
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- Written by: Brendon O'Connor, University of Sydney
Since the election of George W. Bush, I have been telling anyone who would listen that the 21st-century Republican Party was unlike any other centre-right political party.
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- Written by: Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University
Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency in a speech destined to be remembered by history as the “I am your voice” speech – a phrase that Trump repeated several times to tie together his themes of economic revitalization, military strength and government honesty.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Hillary Clinton’s 6-point lead over Donald Trump in last month’s CBS News poll has now evaporated. As of mid-July (even before Trump enjoys a predictable post-convention bump in the polls) she is tied with him. Each garners the support of 40 percent of voters.
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- Written by: Arun Gupta, YES! Magazine
If we listen carefully to Trump’s supporters, we can hear their desire for progressive policies.
