How Comfort Food Is Getting Me Through These Rough Post-Election Days
I’ve learned that when we’re vulnerable, when we’re unsure about the world and our place in it, food is the way back home.
Health & Happiness
How I Stopped Mindlessly Buying Things
Stores want me to buy stuff I don’t need. The internet wants me to buy stuff I don’t need. But I finally figured it out.
How to Attempt Racial Healing—Even During a Trump Presidency
America’s past truth and reconciliation processes show us what works.
5 Ways Science Says to Handle Difficult Emotional Situations
Resilience practices can help you confront stress and pain more skillfully, starting with finding silver linings.
Please Stop Thinking You’re Better Than Trump Supporters
We’ve got to stop acting out hate. There is no less of it in the liberal media than there is in the right-wing media. It is just better disguised.
How Cities Can Protect People Threatened By Trumpism
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
The Myth of Bipartisanship—It’s Time to Get Tough With the Right
Politics is not a parlor game where good manners always win out. It involves questions of power and privilege, which cannot be solved merely with bipartisan brunches.
The Call to “End the War on Black Lives” Starts With Accountability
Next year, the DOJ will collect nationwide data on police shootings and other violent encounters with the public. Is that enough progress?
Millions of Women Know Sexual Trauma—Thanks to Trump, They’re a Voting Bloc
The 76 million women who have been oppressed by rape culture and sexual trauma may turn out with surprising force on November 8.
What to Do When Domestic Abuse Is Financial, Too
Millions of people suffer domestic violence, which can often involve economic abuse. But there are ways to break out of those relationships.
6 Ways to Make Our Money Bring Us More Happiness
What if we defined wise spending in terms of the happiness that it brings? Research shows certain spending can bring us closer to others.
Strangers Become Family at This Multigenerational Housing Project
A unique affordable-housing community supports both foster families and elders who might be looking for a few extra grandchildren.
For Workers Who Feel Like Part of a Machine, These Companies Get It Right
The Good Work Code attempts to re-examine what workers and employers want and to build jobs around shared values.
6 Tips on Making Money and Staying Sane When You Work From Home
How to deal with anxiety, self-doubt, and “the check’s in the mail.”
A Fun Way to Stop Buying Things You Don’t Really Need
Instead of buying the items she coveted, this artist made paintings of them. Here’s what she learned after a year of not shopping.
Can Zoos Teach Us To Be Better Humans?
If we can recognize our destruction of other animals’ habitats, perhaps we can recognize our destruction of all the living systems on which we depend.
I Took a Side Job Selling Cherries at Pike Place—And Now Love the Farming World
There is a profound sense of community born from the gathering of people and the exchange of goods at a market.
My Brush With Terrorism Helped Me Find My Courage
Sometimes it seems that the world is responding to violence only with violence, but there are other possibilities.
Why the Founder of Standing Rock Sioux Camp Can’t Forget the Whitestone Massacre
We must remember we are part of a larger story. We are still here. We are still fighting for our lives on our own land.
The Stress-Busting, Mood-Lifting Effects of Mindfulness During Pregnancy
4 ways a mindfulness practice can protect the health and well-being of mothers and their babies.
Call for Submissions: Science for the Public Good
Send us your ideas by Sept 25.
Why We Need Tiny Colleges
Could smaller—and cheaper—schools produce more thoughtful, engaged, and compassionate human beings?
To Thrive, We Must Be In Touch With Each Other
When we live connected to a community, we are more likely to become champions for one another, not just for ourselves.
Thinking of Moving? Why Staying Put Could Make You Happier
A new book explores what it means to settle down and love where you live.
My Walking Pilgrimage
How the simple act of walking can open us up to confront and heal our toughest problems.
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