The Reveal from Drought’s Receding Waters: Not Just the Bodies in Lake Mead
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Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion
In “Between Us,” psychologist Batja Mesquita argues that emotion isn’t universal, but inherited from social groups.
Read more...Quiet Quitting: White Collar Workers No Longer in the Mood to Give More at Work Than They Are Paid For
Quiet quitting: the new management bugaboo!
Read more...The Hope of What Was Once Called a Decent Living Has Departed for the Average Household
The UK is a serious and worsening cost of living crisis that’s impoverishing the former middle class. What will the political fallout be?
Read more...Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers
Abortion has heated up normally sleepy state and local attorney general races.
Read more...Does Nature Have Rights? Victorian Polymath John Ruskin Thought So
Jeffrey Spear discusses how the insights of John Ruskin can help create a new paradigm for protecting the planet.
Read more...80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security
Social Security is so popular that an overwhelming majority wants more. But that’s apparently one of the nice things we can’t have.
Read more...For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
Inflation is putting families with big ongoing medical costs under terrible stress.
Read more...Researchers Ask: Does Enforcing Civility Stifle Online Debate in Social Media?
As toxic as political discourse has become, it seems almost quaint that a little over a decade ago, many social scientists were hopeful that by allowing political leaders and citizens to talk directly to one another, nascent social media platforms would improve a relationship tarnished by distrust.
Read more...‘Dictatorship Never Again’: Massive Pro-Democracy Protests Sweep Brazil
Protestors in Brazil want to change the government, end neo-fascism, and ensure Constitutional rights.
Read more...Oakland-Based Cooperative Builds Community Through Collective Property Ownership
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative takes historic real estate off the speculative market in West Oakland to help residents.
Read more...Italy’s Upcoming Election and Its Ongoing Neoliberal Project
More on the EU upset over Italy’s move to the right, like the expected success of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) in Sept. elections.
Read more...Third Time May Not Be Charm for Patel as Voters Reluctant to Embrace Generational Change
A case study of why voters are inclinded to stick with office-holders well past their sell-by dates.
Read more...How Employers Are Trying to Thwart a Wave of Union Drives
Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.
Read more...America, Land of the Dying? Alarming Study Shows U.S. Killing Its Own Population
American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
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