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The solitary journey toward contentment is a self-help truism that isn’t really true.

Hear me out: Mindfulness erodes the psychology of tribalism in subtle and powerful ways.

President Trump's latest actions on health care – his executive order creating "association health plans" and terminating cost-sharing payments under Obamacare – will further destabilize health insurance markets and create chaos for tens of millions of Americans who need health insurance. The Trump

"The Iraq War was worse than anything Donald Trump has done (so far)."

There’s a colorless, odorless, and largely benign gas that humanity just can’t get enough of. We produce 40 trillion kg of carbon dioxide each year, and we’re on track to cross a crucial emissions threshold that will cause global temperature rise to pass the dangerous 2°C limit set by the Paris climate agreement.

New evidence shows that ketogenic diets protect the brain as mice age. And one day you might be able to buy a pill that does the same thing, without having to kiss carbs goodbye.

The term “happy” was traditionally synonymous with good fortune.

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The psychology establishment is fighting back against an attack on its reliability. But it might be letting emotion get in the way.

As a scholar of modern German history, I've been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I saw unfold over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia and then at Bedminster, New Jersey gave me the horrible, sinking ...

For humans to survive the automation revolution, we need to double down on our humanity.

The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers has announced the winners of their 2017 contest, and the photos they chose show the struggles mothers go through to bring new life into the world, and the sheer joy that follows.

Perspective from the right on Trump’s political challenge for the left

Why some people are withdrawing from mainstream society into “intentional communities”—and what the rest of the country can learn from them

Claims that Russia is behind the political shocks of 2016 ignore the corrupting influence of digital capitalism

It now owns five of the world’s six largest solar-module manufacturing firms and the largest wind-turbine manufacturer

Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

Many supporters are defensive about the fact that they tolerated bigotry and hate.

Some of the most memorable moments of the election were the best memes.

A lot of people remember the confrontation Senator Ted Cruz had a with a Trump supporter during the

'I don’t recall ever having seen an appointment of someone who is so disdainful of the agency and the science behind what the agency does'

Chomsky and Zizek clashed on voting in the US elections, but the views of both are critically flawed.

Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

The challenge for anti-racists looking for solutions in Trump’s America.

During Obama's presidency, the U.S. became a leader in the fight against climate change, but Trump ends this reign

Noam Chomsky argues November 8, 2016, was a historic day for more reasons than one might realize.