Barbara Ehrenreich

What Would It Take to Get Us to Care About Torture?

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Mental Health, Jane Mayer, Memo, Caring, Martin Seligman, Torture, Bush, Barbara Ehrenreich, Politics News

I am aiming the question first at mental health practitioners since the idea of helping people towards sanity and well-being has been supported by the...

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Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Travis Smiley, Food Network, Home Economics, Cooking, Feeding America, All Things Considered, Obesity, Barbara Ehrenreich, Children's Health, Nickel and Dimed, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

For our kids to combat the obesity plague, no single strategy is adequate. We need easy access to affordable good food, plus physical activity, plus kids who are not intimidated by kitchen utensils and raw vegetables.

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Stand Up for Main Street!

Steve Skrovan | Posted 08.03.2011

I think they were under the mistaken impression that I was a Hollywood player. I've never been on a board before. I have no organizational experience. And everything I know about the law, I learned from the OJ trial.

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Hello, The Marx Brothers Must Be Coming

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.20.2011

My passion for the absurd may derive from early childhood exposure to my mom's twisted song parodies. My fave was "I've Got the World on a String," in...

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In Defense of the Silly: From Direct Action to the Pies of March

Benjamin Shepard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Activism, New York City, Bike Lanes, Bike Lanes New York Traffic, Billionaires for Bush, Pie Fight, Social Change, Kirk Fuoss, Social Movements, Barbara Ehrenreich, New-York-Times-Up, Pies of March, Andrew Boyd, New York News

Behind most successful movements lie examples of disruptive tactics. Countless movements have made use of direct action, sometimes serious, sometimes silly, to take down their opponents a notch.

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Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars by Teaching Positive Thinking to Soldiers

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Positive Thinking, Afghan War, Barbara Ehrenreich, Psychiatric Drugs, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, U.S. Army, Bruce E. Levine, Impact News

While pushing drugs and teaching positive thinking earns mental health professionals money and brownie points with the elite, there is another path for mental health professionals working with U.S. soldiers.

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Bill Walton Shines a Light on Chronic Pain

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Working in the Shadows, Dr. Steven Garfin, San Diego Union-Tribune, Barbara Ehrenreich, Parkinson's Disease, Bright Sided, National Institute of Health, Gaabriel Thompson, Ucla, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Secret, Nba, Chronic Pain, Suicide, Meditation, Bill Walton, Healthcare Reform, Healthy Living News

Basketball legend Bill Walton is beloved as much for his boundless enthusiasm and quirky individualism as for his hoops heroism. But the class and perseverance he's shown through decades of severe chronic back, leg and foot pain might just top his most courageous courtside achievements.

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The Joke's on Iceland's Political Parties

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Reykjavik, Iceland Economic Crisis, Reykjavik-Iceland, Iceland Financial Crisis, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Volcano, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eyjafjallajokull Glacier, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Iceland Bank Crisis, Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, World News

A new political party -- the modestly named The Best Party (Besti Flokkurinn) -- led by comedian Jón Gnarr, has thrown a scare into Iceland's powers-that-be by receiving the most votes in Reykjavik's municipal elections yesterday.

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Health Care Reform: A History In Books

The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyr, Bill Clinton, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich, Health Care, Healthcare, Books News

Amy Hertz, The Huffington Post: Health care reform, on everybody's mind as Obama's original plan gets watered down and twisted unrecognizably as it ma...

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Boomer Women: Beliefs In Transition

Carol Orsborn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Positive Thinking, Barbara Ehrenreich, Baby-Boomers, Baby Boomer Women, The Secret, Women's Rights, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Results of a recent survey by VibrantNation.com reveals that Boomer women's coping strategies and belief systems are reaching new levels of effectiveness in the face of heightened challenge and change.

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Literary Events In Your Neighborhood

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Events, Book Signings, Literary Events, Books, Author Events, Book Events, Author Readings, Authors, Paul Auster, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

There are so many fantastic book-related events happening every day in many cities, from book signings to author readings to poetry competitions and m...

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Positively Stinking Thinking

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Denial, Newsweek, Obsession, Serene Ambition, Creative Thinking, Positive Thinking, The Secret, Julia Baird, Reality, Jim Selman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Truth, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.

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What's Wrong With Positive Thinking? Simple Strategies To Manage Your Thoughts

Tamar Chansky | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michael Pollan, Positive Thinking, Bright-Sided, Psychology, Happiness Tips, Barbara Ehrenreich, Positive Psychology, Anxiety, Negative Thinking, Joy, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Positive Thinking could be considered the high fructose corn syrup of the thinking world--when forced. It's not necessary, and research has found that it's not good for us when we have to sell ourselves on it.

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The Fear Of Magical Thinking

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: New Age, Cancer, Lovin' Spoonful, Meditation, Beethoven, Barbara Ehrenreich, Steinway, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

When Ehrenreich observes, "It's a mistake to try to turn your anger and resentment and sadness or grief into something else," I'm with her all the way.

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniyal Mueenuddin, East Bay Grease, Philip K. Dick, The Fire Gospel, Paul Starobin, Christopher Miller, Syrian Immigrants, Chloe Aridjis, Michael Faber, Home Boy, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Dave Eggers, The Naked Eye, Azhar Abidi, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Brownsville: Stories, Torsten Krol, A Good Fall: Stories, Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, Steve Hely, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Melissa Kwasny, Zeitoun, Book of Clouds, Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Yoko Tawada, Kamila Shamsie, Oscar Casares, The Thing Around Your Neck, Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, H. M. Naqvi, Chris Hedges, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, Carolyn Chute, A Free Life, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Kirn, Eric Miles Williamson, After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age, Ali Sethi, Franz Wright, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Amigoland, Callisto, Books News

Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.

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The Power of Positive Negative Thinking

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Existentialism, Pessimism, Optimism, Pessimism: Philosophy Ethic Spirit, Power of Positive Thinking, Barbara Ehrenreich Bright-Sided, Books, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joshua Foa Dienstag, Bright-Sided, Dienstag, Books News

There are thoughtful folks among us like Joshua Foa Dienstag who says we should embrace, or at least, form an acquaintance with the alternative to positive thinking -- PESSIMISM!

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Bright-Sided: Smart Analysis Or Missing Something?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Positive Thinking, Bright-Sided, Positivity, Books, Nora Ephron, The Secret, Power of Positive Thinking, Optimism, Book Reviews, New Books, Bright-Sided Book Review, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed, Poll, Bestsellers, Books News

Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bright-Sided, has been the source of a great book review debate recently. Following eye-opening accounts such as Nickel...

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Lab Rat Cinema: Monetizing the Reptile Brain

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Special Effects, Waterworld, Fear, Anger, Critical Thought, Mindless Entertainment, Positive Thinking, Fight-or-Flight, Barbara Ehrenreich, Reptile Brain, Blockbusters, James Cameron Avatar, Adrenaline, Cortisol, Movies, Entertainment News

The unmistakable sign of a well-wrought book or film is that it puts us in a light trance. We suspend disbelief, immerse ourselves in the universe unfolding before us.

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Barbara Ehrenreich Does It Again

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Racism, Racism, Barack Obama Race, Barbara Ehrenreich, Post-Racial, Barack Obama, Politics News

Just as she did last month, she has published the best op-ed read of the day.

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Living in a Police State Is Okay

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Politics News

The reason I haven't been arrested is not because I'm white -- it's because I'm not poor. If I were, living in my police state would not be okay.

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The Nanny Diaries: A Caribbean Version

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Housekeepers, Caribbean Nannies, Caribbean Women, Gloria Steinem, Caribbean Caretakers, Domestic Workers United, Exit Cuckoo, Barbara Ehrenreich, Caribbean Domestic Workers, Latina Nannies, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Lisa Ramirez, Hector Figueroa, Kevin Powell, Gov. David Paterson, New York Labor Relations Act, Nannies, Domestic Workers, African Nannies, Jonathan Tescini, Rules-for-Nannies, Women's Rights, Governor David Paterson, Domestic-Workers-United, Healthy Living News

There are more than 200,000 women in New York working as nannies, companions and housekeepers, whose lives are typified by long hours, meagre wages, drudgery, and worse.

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Are IKEA, Outlet Malls, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods Really Bargains?

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Vance Packard, Christopher Lasch, Whole Foods, Cheap, Chinese Factories, Outlet Malls, Wages, Craftsmanship, Cheap Eats, Globalization, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Reisman, Ellen Ruppel Shell, Wal-Mart, Shrimp Farming, Slow Food, Labor, Consumerism, Ikea, Michael Pollan, Betty Friedan, Local Food, Chinese Exports, Marketing, Sustainability, Deforestation, Pricing, Eric Schlosser, Red Lobster, Food, Green News

American consumers are being taken for a ride.

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Third Screen: Entertainment vs. Recession Porn

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, David Lynch, The Economy, Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rich and Poor, The New York Times, Entertainment News

Who is rich and powerful? Who is poor and weak? Artists and journalists always write about these things, but how they do so is telling. During th...

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Real Progress on Homelessness

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wal-Mart, Bronx, Homelessness, Brooklyn, New York City, The New Yorker, Homeless, Million Dollar Murray, Malcolm Gladwell, Queens, Will Smith, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed, New York/New York, Politics News

We can end chronic homelessness, but only if we abandon ineffective and entrenched practices.

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About EFCA (But Were Afraid To Ask)

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Efca, Obama Transition, Barbara Ehrenreich, Employee Free Choice Act, Barack Obama, Howie Klein, Seiu, Michael Whitney, Jim Boehner, Labor Rights, Lee Scott, Employee Rights, Bernie Marcus, Unions, Labor Unions, Wal-Mart, Business News

We're so close to passing the Employee Free Choice Act that we must dispel the last-minute attempts by anti-labor politicians to quash our efforts of standing up for working people.

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