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We spend a lot of time working. How can we make our work lives more meaningful?
The average American spends a third of his or her life working.
Across the United States, from rural areas to cities and suburbs, people have been hitting the streets to protest racism and police brutality.
It's already difficult to talk about politics in a polarized United States, but a few choice words are making it even harder.
How has extreme individual freedom led to a crisis of isolation?
Yale's Laurie Santos gives a crash course on how to feel less stressed and depressed.
Looking around and experiencing the suffering and injustice in the world can make it difficult to believe that happiness exists. But the Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that it’s sinful to succumb to despair, and we have a responsibility to ourselves and others to try and find our way through dark times. On the other hand, when you avoid suffering, you avoid meaning, and...
Tim O’Reilly says we should be harnessing technology, rather than fearing it.
In today’s world, we tend to switch jobs more frequently than previous generations, and are more likely to have multiple jobs. Side gigs where we express passions or find meaning are also common, and many juggle additional roles as caregivers and community members, as people always have. In short, many of us are focused on a lot more than just climbing a corporate ladder....
Should rules govern demeaning, disparaging, and degrading speech directed at certain groups?
Leading up to the US presidential election in 2016, Kansas pastor Adam Hamilton noticed the people in his congregation wrestling with fear.
People are in constant conversation with their dogs, says dog scientist Alexandra Horowitz, and dogs pick up on things like our tone of voice. "We think meaning is all in the words but for them, the meaning is in the context, and they’re working very hard to understand it.” Horowitz studies dog cognition and the relationship between dogs and their human owners. She runs th...
In the United States, the number of people attending church is declining. So where are people going to find meaning and community?
The Covid-19 crisis isn’t easy to bear as adults but what about young kids and teenagers?
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats discusses Trump's meeting with Putin.
Is the English language deteriorating before our ears?
Christian Picciolini went to his first white supremacist skinhead meeting at age 14.
How can colleges better address students' mental health issues?
How the clothing industry can change to help the planet.
In the 1950s and 60s, mental health providers used psychedelics to help patients open up about difficult memories. Then, the drugs were banned. Now there’s a resurgence. Psychedelics like MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine are being studied as solutions for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Findings show that drugs like MDMA are especially useful in the context of healing from tr...