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: Amanda Woog, University of Texas at Austin
How many people die in our criminal justice system each year? It turns out it is hard to tell, and it depends who you ask.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
For more than two decades, people have used the internet to research, shop, make friends, find dates, and learn about the world. And third parties have been watching—and learning.
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- Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine
We can refuse to accept the pervasive, but false, claims that money is wealth and a growing GDP improves the lives of all.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
One of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals didn’t receive enough attention and should become a law even without a president Sanders. Hillary Clinton should adopt it for her campaign.
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- Written by: Alexa Strabuk, YES! Magazine
There would be no Cesar Chavez without the Filipino manongs of Delano, California, whose decision to strike set off the most significant labor movement the United States has ever seen.
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- Written by: Rob Hulls, RMIT University and Elena Campbell, RMIT University
Footage aired last week of children being abused in a Northern Territory prison sent shockwaves around the nation. These images forced us to grapple with the problem as if it were breaking news, despite the fact that so many people knew so much about it for so long.
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- Written by: F. Chris Curran, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The State Senate of Michigan is currently considering legislation that would scale back “zero tolerance” discipline policies in the state’s public schools.
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- Written by: Frank Rudy Cooper, Suffolk University
Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.
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- Written by: Deborah Bach, University of Washington
At a time of intense national attention on law enforcement and race, a new study suggests that racially based fear plays a role in public support for policing reforms.
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- Written by: Zenobia Jeffries, YES! Magazine
The most effective reforms are the ones that build community trust between citizens and the police that serve them.
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- Written by: Jana Králová, University of Bath
Every year, over 50m people in the world will die. Old age, disease, war and starvation all contribute to that number, and scientists, doctors and charities do their best to bring the figure down.
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- Written by: Christen Smith, University of Texas at Austin
Diamond Reynolds’ live stream of Philando Castile bleeding to death after being shot by Officer Jeronimo Yanez has shocked and dismayed our nation.
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- Written by: Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University
On June 10 Americans celebrated Muhammad Ali as a paragon of athletic prowess, dignity in the face of suffering and patriotic dissent.
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- Written by: Dominic Parrott, Georgia State University
In the United States, public support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has increased in recent years
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- Written by: Kari Lerum, University of Washington, Bothell
It seems that almost everyone has an opinion about prostitution and sex work. But with Amnesty International’s recent unflinching policy recommendation to decriminalize all adult consensual sex work
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- Written by: Philipp Winter, Princeton University
There are more than 865 encryption tools in use worldwide, all addressing different aspects of a common problem. People want to protect information: hard drives from oppressive governments, physical location from stalkers, browsing history from overly curious corporations or phone conversations from nosy neighbors.
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- Written by: Journalist Resource
Illegal immigration to the United States has long been a subject of heated debate. Some argue that immigrants take jobs away from Americans, commit crimes, traffic drugs and unduly strain social welfare programs but pay no taxes.
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- Written by: Kasia Tarczynska, YES! Magazine
Cities and states fork over an estimated $70 billion each year to large companies that don’t need public assistance to thrive. We could spend that money on our own neighborhoods.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the biggest single force in American politics today.
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- Written by: H V Jagadish, University of Michigan
We now have dozens of smart devices in our houses and even on our bodies. They improve our lives in so many ways – from lowering energy consumption in our homes to egging us on to be active.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Wealth inequality is even more of a problem than income inequality. That’s because you have to have enough savings from income to begin to accumulate wealth – buying a house or investing in stocks and bonds, or saving up to send a child to college.
