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: John Light, BillMoyers.com
If, as multiple reports indicate, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has picked Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, it may be for his connections to party conservatives — especially those who fund campaigns.
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- Written by: Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York
As the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump could learn a lot from his party’s first president, Abraham Lincoln. He should start with religion and immigration, topics on which he has appealed to fear and bigotry rather than “the better angels of our nature" as Lincoln did.
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
With a mix of anger and excitement, Bernie Sanders supporters shift focus away from the presidency and search for ways to sustain the political revolution sparked by his campaign.
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- Written by: Kathy Kiely, BillMoyers.com
As campaign-finance reform advocates pounce on Donald Trump’s bizarre — because it’s blatantly illegal — spamming of overseas lawmakers with fundraising emails, a veteran commissioner of the Federal Election Commission is already plan to offer new proposals to keep foreign money out of US political campaigns.
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
Samuel Johnson famously considered patriotism “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” His biographer James Boswell, who passed along that judgment, clarified that Johnson “did not mean a real and generous love for our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest.”
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- Written by: Viviane Seyranian, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
The 2016 American presidential election will boil down to one simple question: Who do we want to be as Americans?
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- Written by: Robert Reich
If Donald Trump continues to implode, Hillary Clinton will win simply by being the presidential candidate who isn’t Trump.
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- Written by: Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
This was once a referendum about whether or not the UK should remain in the EU. But not anymore. The referendum has effectively turned into a plebiscite about diversity and tolerance vs divisiveness and hatred
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- Written by: Jörg Wiegratz, University of Leeds and David Whyte, University of Liverpool
Corporate fraud is not just present, but is widespread in many neoliberalised economies of both income-rich and income-poor countries.
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- Written by: Neal Gabler, Bill Moyers.com
The rebellious nature of the Vermont senator's presidential bid didn't fit the mainstream media's predetermined scenario.
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- Written by: Martin Parker, University of Leicester
We live in an age of conspiracies about a world shaped by shadowy plots, secret organisations and deals made behind closed doors. And while they are often viewed as the fictions of sad people wearing anoraks and tin foil hats, they can relate to the real business of global politics.
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- Written by: Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge
We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary. All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts. To an ancient Greek democrat (of any stripe), all our modern democratic systems would count as “oligarchy”.
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- Written by: David Lewis, University of Exeter
Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin – from Manila to Moscow, Washington to Budapest, populist authoritarians are the new normal.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
With the Democratic primaries grinding to a bitter end, I have suggestions for both Clinton and Sanders supporters that neither will like.
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- Written by: Jill Hopke, DePaul University
With the front-runners of both parties in support of fracking, even with some conditions, it would seem that anti-fracking activists are fighting an uphill battle.
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- Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine
Voters hit hardest by free-trade economics are rebelling against the status quo. We can use that energy to build a powerful, grassroots movement for democracy.
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- Written by: David Morris, On The Commons
Bernie offers a narrative we haven’t heard for at least two generations from a major political candidate. “What should Bernie do?” That seems to be the question of the month. Permit me to weigh in.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday finds Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a statistical tie, with Trump leading Clinton 46 percent to 44 percent among registered voters. That’s an 11 percent swing against Clinton since March.
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- Written by: Kira M. Newman, YES! Magazine
Researchers say happiness reveals more about human welfare than standard indicators like wealth, education, health, or good government.
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- Written by: Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland and Joshua Conrad Jackson, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
For the past 10 months, Donald Trump has been a political enigma. Against the predictions of journalists, policy wonks and odds makers, a tabloid darling with no political experience and few coherent policies is now poised to be the Republican nominee for president.
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- Written by: Jon Queally, Common Dreams
Describing poverty as a "death sentence" for millions of Americans each year, Sanders supporters remain inspired by his call for a politics from below
