Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: John R. Audette
Clearly, we do not live in a “one for all and all for one” world. Yes, there are some hopeful indicators that pockets of this thinking exist here and there, and it is most encouraging. But, there is much more evidence that “every man for himself” behavior rules the day still on planet Earth, and this could be our undoing as a species if it continues to dominate the behavior of many humans...
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- Written by: Emanuel Kuntzelman
Jane Goodall refers to Ervin Laszlo’s observation that most people are evolved enough to know that they need to change, but not evolved enough to know what change they need. Thus, the hardest problem of all might be, as Laszlo states, that many people, including even scientists, do not see what they do not believe.
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- Written by: Shari Arison
The way I see it, there are two paths we can choose to take. One leads to further conflict, and the other takes us toward greater compassion and peace. I believe that on a whole, we're becoming tired of negativity, and we're consciously looking to find ways to effect positive change...
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- Written by: Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney
The children come home from school to be greeted by their mother, who is wearing an apron. They then go off to play with their neighbourhood friends, from families very like their own.
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- Written by: Kingsley L. Dennis
Civilizations emerge and evolve when they are governed by a creative minority that inspires the people. In turn, civilizations enter decline when the dominant minority prefers to follow a status quo of power rule...
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Last Wednesday, on the eve of his election to the House of Representatives, Montana Republican Greg Gianforte beat up Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the “Guardian" newspaper.
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
Political polarization is largest for demographic groups in which individuals are least likely to use the internet and social media, new research shows.
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- Written by: Matthew Swayne, Penn State
If music historians, not critics, chose which acts to induct into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the selections would likely differ, says Richard Aquila. They might even include Pat Boone.
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- Written by: Bill Moyers, BillMoyers.com
As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie Hidden Figures, which my wife Judith and I saw three days earlier.
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- Written by: Cat Johnson, Shareable
For generations, many have worked towards the quintessential American Dream, in both the idealistic and materialistic senses.
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- Written by: Boston University
Experiencing record high or low temperatures affects people’s stated belief in climate change, new research finds.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Last Thursday President-elect Donald Trump triumphantly celebrated Carrier’s decision to reverse its plan to close a furnace plant and move jobs to Mexico. Some 800 jobs will remain in Indianapolis.
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- Written by: Tristan Ahtone, YES! Magazine
Tohono O’odham traditional lands extend deep into Mexico, and any border wall will face legal and physical opposition.
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- Written by: George Lakey, Waging NonViolence
This was a highly emotional election, and we need time to feel our feelings and sort out what it means for us and for the country. Donald Trump's game is to manipulate emotions and activists can be as vulnerable as anyone else...
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- Written by: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, BillMoyers.com
The reactionary wave that swept across America with the election of Donald Trump is not an anomaly in our history. It is an all-too-familiar pattern in the long struggle for American reconstruction.
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- Written by: Ye Liu, King's College London
At the core of Theresa May’s reasons for lifting the ban on new grammar schools in September was, the prime minister argued, her desire for “Britain to be the world’s great meritocracy”.
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- Written by: Bert Gambini, University of Buffalo
Some policymakers and elected officials, including President Barack Obama, have publicly criticized impoverished and African-American fathers for not being involved in the lives of their children.
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- Written by: Zoe Strimpel, University of Sussex
Vaginas are so hot right now. If that sentence shocks you, then you’ve been out of the cultural loop.
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- Written by: don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
As long as each side is attached to their beliefs, the battle never ends. It is only when one person is able to step back and listen to the other without judging that is there is potential for a shift to occur...
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
Harvard Law School professors love to use hypotheticals in their classes. So let’s try one that they have not subjected their students to in its 200 years of storied history. What if the Law School split itself into two parts
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- Written by: Paula Michaels, Monash University
Is there a difference between calling a woman or a man “hysterical”? The word’s origin as the term for a psychological disorder grounded in female physiology suggests the answer is yes.
