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: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Arthur Conan Doyle's famous line about "The dog that didn't bark" from Sherlock Holmes has unexpectedly been a great way to describe what's happening now.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
There's a popular meme circulating highlighting some startling statistics about America: millions uninsured, dire poverty, high illiteracy rates, untreated mental illnesses, and frequent gun violence.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Recent events paint a dire picture for state Republican parties across the nation. Financial ruin, chaos, and an overwhelming burden of debts cripple their operations.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
At the heart of the United States' foundational document, the Constitution, lies the Preamble - a concise yet powerful statement that sets the course for the nation's journey toward democratic perfection.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Over the years, the United States has been a beacon of democracy, embracing values like voter engagement, checks and balances, and impartial administration.
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- Written by: Stephan Lewandowsky and Jana Lasser
Politicians from mainstream parties in the UK and Germany post far fewer links to untrustworthy websites on Twitter and this has remained constant since 2016, according to our new research.
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- Written by: Daniel Merino and Nehal El-Hadi
Modern protest movements, like the ongoing protests in Iran, often center around women who have been killed or harmed by agents of authoritarian governments.
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- Written by: Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig
Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways?
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
When political parties become increasingly divided and refuse to work together, it can make it difficult for the government to function effectively.
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- Written by: Connie Zweig, Ph.D.
The mountain roads around my home are flooding, only weeks after we escaped wildfires. Climate change is here now. And all of it—human civilization, the animals, the Earth itself—is at risk. We are in a collective rite of passage. Not at the threshold—but fully in it.
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- Written by: Vicki Crawford
Coretta Scott King was a committed activist in her own right. She was deeply involved with social justice causes before she met and married Martin Luther King Jr., and long after his death.
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- Written by: Cormac Russell and John McKnight
Each time we go out of our way to encourage, support, share, and enjoy a neighbor, we are putting the world to rights on our own street.
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- Written by: Cormac Russell and John McKnight
Aside from connecting for neighborliness, what other functions do vibrant neighborhoods undertake? As an answer, consider these seven irreplaceable community functions...
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- Written by: Ruth Mace
The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces. In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress code than with the impending collapse of the country into famine.
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- Written by: University of Chicago
A new study examines one program’s impact on employment and incarceration.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
The Supreme Court has just, by all appearances, intentionally turned America into an armed camp.
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- Written by: enjamin Radcliff, University of Notre Dame
Human beings are social animals. This means, almost as a matter of logical necessity, that humans’ quality of life is largely decided by the quality of their societies.
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- Written by: Matthew Jordan and Sydney Forde, Penn State
After Canadian truckers upset with vaccination mandates made their way to Ottawa, they parked their vehicles near Parliament and started making noise – lots of it – blasting their air horns day and night, disturbing the repose of citizens at home, work and in school.
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- Written by: Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University and Timothy J. Shaffer, Kansas State University
When persuasion stops and violence begins, that’s the line between ‘legitimate political discourse’ and something very different
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- Written by: Amy Fried, University of Maine and Douglas B. Harris, Loyola University Maryland
It’s the latest step in a long-standing, systemic effort of the Republican Party to sow and capitalize on public distrust.
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- Written by: Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder
With Congress failing to pass new voting rights legislation, it’s worth remembering that throughout U.S. history, new civil rights laws designed to end racial inequities across American life have been met by stubborn resistance.
