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: Jill Stein Campaign
The Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is launching an effort to ensure the integrity of our elections. We are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania-- three states where there is a significant need to verify machine-counted vote totals. Please donate to this initiative today.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Who will become the next chair of the Democratic National Committee? This leadership contest has significant implications for the future of American politics. The choice will help determine how the Democratic party responds to its extraordinary defeats in recent years, ending with the election of Donald Trump.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Donald Trump has done incalculable damage to America – eroding the trust and social cohesion the nation depends on.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
It's time to throw off our self-imposed shackles of Washington lobbyists and billionaire oligarchs, of wall street greed and corporate malfeasance, and of neocons, neoliberals, and political hacks to empower our lost unified American spirit.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell & Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Yes, we know! We're all tired of hearing about the elections. However, that doesn't make it less important. It's coming to a close this Tuesday, November 8th 2016, and some people are still "on the fence". Not only do they not know who they will vote for, but they don't know if they're even going to vote.
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- Written by: Allison Carmen
Now that the Presidential election is over, we can start to think about what life is going to be like after Tuesday, November 8th. This election season has not only been tough for our country, but also has wreaked havoc on many of our personal relationships.
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- Written by: Peter White, YES! Magazine
Ranked-choice voting is catching on, and Maine might become the first state to help citizens vote for candidates they actually want.
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- Written by: John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Elections normally decide who is to govern. This upcoming election is about the very legitimacy of the system.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Hillary Clinton won’t be the only winner when Donald Trump and his fellow haters are defeated on Election Day (as looks increasingly likely). Another will be Paul Ryan, who will rule the Republican roost.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
I continue to hear from many people who call themselves progressives or liberals, but tell me they won’t vote for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.
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- Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine
What is the most important—yet neglected—issue in the political debate? Hint: It isn’t the ideal body weight of Miss Universe.
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- Written by: Harry Boyte, BillMoyers.com
It would be wrong to ignore the psychological, social and political damage this poisonous election is causing. When the movement called Citizen Therapists Against Trumpism, an effort to awaken therapists to their public responsibilities.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
The Clinton campaign is relentlessly focusing on the defects of Donald Trump rather than the defects of the Republican agenda. That’s understandable, and it could be a winning strategy. But it has pitfalls.
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- Written by: Aradhna Krishna and Tatiana Sokolova, University of Michigan
How do voters select a candidate when no one they like is on the ballot?
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- Written by: Gleb Tsipursky, The Ohio State University
The vast majority of pundits declared Hillary Clinton the decisive winner of this week’s debate.
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- Written by: Mark Aspinwall, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
This year, much interest is focused on what The Economist calls drawbridge politics. Voters who believe in leaving the drawbridge down, so to speak, see opportunities in open borders for immigrants and trade.
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- Written by: Andy Henion, Michigan State University
Local school board elections increasingly are becoming national political battlegrounds, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out-of-state donors in the name of education reform.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Excerpts from the presidential debate and get response from Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein.
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- Written by: Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University
Years ago, when I first started teaching and was at Syracuse University, one of my students ran for student body president on the tongue-in-cheek platform “Issues are Tissues, without a T.”
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- Written by: Clifton B. Parker, Stanford University
Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, and their concerns will have a major impact on the 2016 presidential election.
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- Written by: Lisa Barritt-Eyles, University of Newcastle
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seems willing to reach beyond what has been previously acceptable in his quest to be America’s next president.
