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: Stephen Duckett and Will Mackey
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought once-in-a-generation destruction to the lives and livelihoods of people around the world.
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- Written by: David McMillan
Financial markets can tell us a lot about the economic recovery ahead, based on their direction of travel and how confident investors feel about the future.
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- Written by: Benjamin Appel and Cyanne E. Loyle
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate another year of its independence, the country is paying renewed attention to the founders, and how their legacy of slavery is linked to systemic racism.
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- Written by: Calvin Schermerhorn
On June 19, 1865 – 155 years ago – black Americans celebrating the day of Jubilee, later known as Juneteenth, may have expected a shot at real opportunity.
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- Written by: David J. Peters
Rural areas seemed immune as the coronavirus spread through cities earlier this year. Few rural cases were reported, and attention focused on the surge of illnesses and deaths in the big metro areas.
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- Written by: Tom Vasich
A new analysis stresses the need for caution when when reopening America’s schools.
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- Written by: Pat Harriman
Retail isn’t going back to normal, says a professor of marketing and psychological science.
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- Written by: Eleanor Russell and Martin Parker
In June 1348, people in England began reporting mysterious symptoms. They started off as mild and vague: headaches, aches, and nausea.
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- Written by: Michele Gilman
Long after the COVID-19 health emergency ends, many Americans will still suffer from the long tail of the pandemic’s economic devastation.
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- Written by: Daniel Baldwin Hess and Alex Bitterman
The United States and Canada have long enjoyed a stable relationship. The countries share history, the longest nonmilitarized international border in the world, and strong economic ties.
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- Written by: Darren Ellis, et al
Airlines face an unprecedented international crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Written by: David King and Chris Munn
As some 350,000 American churches and other houses of worship scramble to meet the spiritual and – increasingly – material needs of their members remotely, they are doing so on a tighter budget than usual.
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- Written by: Peter C. Mancall
Policymakers are beginning to decide how to reopen the American economy. Until now, they’ve largely prioritized human health
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- Written by: Dirk Philipsen
Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans face in trying to be smart, efficient and moral.
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- Written by: Mark Munn
The jump in federal spending in response to the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic is not a new idea.
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- Written by: Kathryn McKinley
The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role, with a combination of job security, access to health care and mobility widening the gap in infection and mortality rates between rich and poor.
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- Written by: Daniel N. Rockmore and Michael Herron
Consider these two questions: What percentage of Americans are, or have been, infected with the coronavirus?
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- Written by: Nada R. Sanders
Retailers are frequently running out of everything from flour and fresh meat to toilet paper and pharmaceuticals as supply chains hammered by the coronavirus struggle to keep up with stockpiling consumers.
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- Written by: Leigh Osofsky
A series of recent protests by the workers preparing and delivering our essential foods and other goods highlights a key risk to our ability to combat the coronavirus.
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- Written by: Lionel Cavicchioli
From New York to Moscow, Johannesburg to Buenos Aires, the novel coronavirus continues its global journey. On March 30, almost three months after China announced the discovery of COVID-19, the disease associated with the coronavirus, more than 780,000 people have been infected and at least 37,000 have died.
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- Written by: Jay L. Zagorsky
The COVID-19 outbreak appears headed for the U.S., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging Americans to prepare now, such as by stocking up on food and prescription drugs.
