Tag: culture
Why women’s leadership strengthens disaster resilience and environmental stewardship
Often overlooked in traditional emergency management, women play a critical role in preparedness, risk reduction, and building resilient communities.
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may...
We’re continuing to study how cultural values, social systems and moral intuitions shape people’s judgments of fairness and excess—from views of wealth and ambition to knowledge and AI computing power.
Twenty years after Katrina, the city’s all-charter schools system is failing...
Despite claims by reform advocates of achieving success, Black children and parents continue to endure a punitive, impersonal, and undemocratic system.
When will MAGA Trump’s reckless war against America cause an equal,...
Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke.
I went to see Superman as an escape from reality—reality was...
At the end of the day, Superman is a story about hope—even when it feels like the world is against you.
How inclusionary social movements succeed
Inclusionary social movements attempt to “widen the ‘we.’”
The corrosive delusion of progress and the American dream
Most crises trace back to identifiable decisions and actions. Even the lead-up to the two world wars could have been disrupted numerous...
Pope Francis’s remarkable peacemaking life
As Francis demonstrated, there's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Addicted to war?
War Fever, Trump-Style.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.