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: Paul Hampton, YES! Magazine
Here’s what today’s nontraditional workers are doing to build democratic, worker-led communities within the growing gig economy.
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- Written by: J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University
Since the Affordable Care Act – or what many call Obamacare – has been labeled a failure since the day it started, according to some political types, it’s difficult to know if the recent defections by large insurance companies are really a death knell or just growing pains.
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- Written by: Kevin Shih, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Immigrants have become a major scapegoat in recent years for sputtering Western economies.
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- Written by: Alex Williams, City University London
Almost everyone enjoys a bank holiday. A three-day weekend means more time to spend with family and friends, to go out and explore the world, and to relax from the pressures of working life.
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- Written by: Vineet Chopra and Sanjay Saint, University of Michigan
When a person goes to the doctor, there’s usually one thing they want: a diagnosis. Once a diagnosis is made, a path toward wellness can begin.
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- Written by: Neil Pyper, Coventry University
Latin America has traditionally been the world’s most unequal region, but it has recently shown signs of change. Through the 2000s, high international prices for exports have brought inequality levels down.
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- Written by: Harry Boyte, Bill Moyers.com
Donald Trump’s candidacy gives rise to many descriptors — authoritarian, bigoted, divisive. It is also the culmination of long-developing dysfunctions of a culture where market values have spread beyond appropriate limits and radically eroded citizenship.
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- Written by: Roberta Attanasio, Georgia State University
The U.S. coal industry is in rapid decline, a shift marked not only by the bankruptcy of many mine operators in coal-rich Appalachia but also by a legacy of potential environmental and social disasters.
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- Written by: Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University
There’s new evidence that standing desks in classrooms can slow the increase in elementary school children’s body mass index (BMI)—a key indicator of obesity—by an average of 5.24 percentile points.
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
It took two days for 60 members of the Cowboy and Indian Alliance to plant the heirloom seeds by hand.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
The best argument for a single-payer health plan is the recent decision by giant health insurer Aetna to bail out next year from 11 of the 15 states where it sells Obamacare plans.
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- Written by: Christos Makridis, Stanford University
Political polarization today is greater than it’s been in recent history – at least since the 1970s. To see that, one need only look at the current U.S. presidential election.
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- Written by: John Quiggin, The University of Queensland
Privatization is a policy that has consistently failed but is remorselessly pushed by the political elite. It is little surprise that voters are turning to populism in response.
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- Written by: Marla Paul, Northwestern University
Women who need to see the urologist prefer female providers, but there aren’t enough of them to meet that need, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison, New York University
A new study finds a startling scarcity of children’s books for sale in low-income neighborhoods in Detroit, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles.
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- Written by: Iris Feinberg, Georgia State University and Daphne Greenberg, Georgia State University
More and more adults are going back to school to learn new skills. The National Center for Education Statistics data show a 7 percent growth in college enrollment for adults over the age of 24 between 2005 and 2015. This is projected to increase to 12 percent by 2019.
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- Written by: Rod Hick, Cardiff University
Brexit caps off a turbulent decade for the EU. Many in the eurozone will be hoping that it does not cause further economic turmoil, as it is becoming increasingly clear that the financial crisis of 2008-09 led to a substantial increase in poverty across the continent.
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- Written by: Clifton B. Parker, Stanford University
"We should not expect a return to the high top tax rates of the post-war era," predicts Kenneth Scheve.
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- Written by: Mark Gruenberg, Peoples World
Some 36 percent of all U.S. residents are either financially desperate - meaning they don't earn enough to pay basic bills - or barely getting by, a new international survey says.
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- Written by: Phil Lewis, University of Canberra
As a student I was taught (and this will date me) that macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole) was essentially governed by two alternative views – Keynesianism and Monetarism.
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- Written by: Karin Kamp, Bill Moyers.com
In her new book,White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg rips apart the myth that the United States is a class-free society where hard work is rewarded by social mobility.
