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: 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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- Written by: Staff
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: 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: 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: 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."
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- Written by: Robert Reich
In an era of Trump, some of you may be succumbing to the following four syndromes:
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- Written by: Arun Gupta, YES! Magazine
Taking a lesson from Standing Rock, we must be careful with language while working toward progress in the Trump years.
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- Written by: Alaa Tartir, OpenDemocracy
In a context of growing injustice, reclaiming the importance and the meaning of the word resistance is more urgent than ever.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs.
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- Written by: Paulo Coelho
My literature is totally committed with a new political attitude – human beings in search of their own identity. My books don’t talk about the old and used up process of the right/left but there is a revolution that is slowly rising up...
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- Written by: Robert Jensen, YES! Magazine
Feeling anxious about life in a broken-down society on a stressed-out planet? While the dominant culture encourages dysfunctional denial — pop a pill, go shopping, find your bliss — there’s a more sensible approach: Accept the anxiety, embrace the deeper anguish, and then...
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
When I was a student at Princeton University I learned from my anthropology studies that the concentration of power in the hands of the few is common to all cultures, societies, nations, tribes, cities, towns, and villages.
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- Written by: Andy Price, Sheffield Hallam University
As the Brexit debate deteriorates in quality at an alarming rate, it appears that any hope of Britain returning to its democratic senses is receding fast.
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- Written by: Gail Ablow, Bill Moyers.com
Over the past month, thousands of protesters, including Native Americans from more than 100 tribes across the country, have traveled to North Dakota to help the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe block the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built.
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- Written by: Vyacheslav W. Polonski, University of Oxford
The internet has rewired civil society, propelling collective action into a radically new dimension. Democracy is now not only exercised at the ballot box, but lived and experienced online on a day-to-day basis.
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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: 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: 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.
