7 Vows of Compassion for Political Candidates
You can call me naïve, but I believe that to save the human race and this magnificent planet we are on, compassion must be part of our daily prayer.
You can call me naïve, but I believe that to save the human race and this magnificent planet we are on, compassion must be part of our daily prayer.
Sam Sommers | Posted 01.11.2012 | Politics
No, this is not another blog post about the benefits (or costs) to being beautiful, though attractiveness certainly is a characteristic that can impact an election. Just ask Richard Nixon. But I'm not talking about physical attractiveness per se.
Irene Tanner | Posted 12.19.2011 | Healthy Living
After decades of exploring the human potential movement and studying many methods of its gurus, I now believe that I have garnered enough information, instruction and experience to edit it all down to some simple guidelines that have proven invaluable to me.
Randall Amster | Posted 12.13.2011 | Impact
Now, with peace in our hearts and power in our hands, the time to reclaim both ourselves and our world is upon us. This is our generational task, our shared responsibility, and our best hope for salvation. Let us meet it willingly, together.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.13.2011 | Women
When you boost women's confidence, they do much better at the kinds of things at which they are presumed to suck.
Laura Campbell | Posted 02.08.2012 | Divorce
I may not have understood then but I understand now that each and every action I take, word I speak and decision I make contributes to the creation of the life I choose to live.
Charlotte Hill | Posted 02.06.2012 | Politics
While others have celebrated freedom, we have celebrated money. While others, living under dictatorship, have celebrated choice, we have celebrated celebrity.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.04.2012 | Green
December 5 marks the beginning of the Sierra Club's Mercury Awareness Week. In anticipation of that, here are four ways to help you keep the toxic stuff out of your life.
John Stoehr | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics
Zuccotti Park is different. While most parks are public, this one is privately owned. Its owner is one of America's largest commercial real estate firms. Brookfield Properties owns lots of property in lower Manhattan -- and its status among corporate "citizens" is enviable.
David Nichtern | Posted 01.16.2012 | Healthy Living
The $64 question is, can we maintain balance, awareness and open-heartedness while we engage fully in the activities of this world? Can we make the five seducers work for us or will we work for them?
Mariya Yefremova | Posted 01.16.2012 | Women
Some people may see sentimentality in women as a negative, but I am not one of those people.
Donna Flagg | Posted 01.04.2012 | Politics
It's what makes life so unpleasant, miserable even. It's the bosses who make employees feel worthless, it's the wives, husbands, boyfriends and girlfr...
AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 01.02.2012 | Green
BAY CITY, Texas — Ever since the days of Spindletop, when oil first spewed from the soil near Beaumont, Texans have embraced the energy industry...
Malcolm Kushner | Posted 01.01.2012 | Weird News
The University of Chicago recently announced a donation of $42 million to create an institute dedicated to the improvement of doctor-patient relations.
AP | MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 12.30.2011 | Green
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. — When winter's white mixes with autumn's orange and gold, nature gets ugly. A freak October nor'easter knocked out power ...
Birute Regine | Posted 12.28.2011 | Business
Will women transform the meaning of power by distributing power rather than holding onto it, by engaging people rather than dictating to them, and by seeking to bring the best out in people rather than focusing on themselves as center stage heroes?
Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 12.26.2011 | Women
I stuck with the wrong guy because I felt the alternative was much worse.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.14.2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through legislation Friday that gives the states the power to regulate coal ash from power plants as if it...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.12.2011 | Politics
While the GOP has been searching behind bowling alleys and between couch cushions for a new mascot, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has managed to focus on the most basic and important questions: Who should hold the reins of political power in America?
Carol Smaldino | Posted 12.10.2011 | Parents
Kids need the power to have an impact and to be heard, respected and heeded. At the same time they need to know that we will protect them, all of them -- even the bullies -- from the power games of children, from the dramas that can last a lifetime.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.12.2011 | Women
What's the Occupy Wall Street movement -- an ongoing, multi-city protest against corporate greed, cronyism and inequity -- got to do with gender politics, you ask? I say: everything.
AP | Posted 12.05.2011 | Green
VIENNA -- The U.N. nuclear agency says three people were exposed to radiation and had to undergo decontamination after a mishap at a Belgian waste fac...
AP | By MATTHEW DALY | Posted 12.05.2011 | Green
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to speed up permitting and construction of seven proposed electric transmission lines in 12 ...
Fortune | Posted 12.05.2011 | Comedy
Talk show host and comedian Chelsea Handler interviewed AOL Huffington Post Media Group's president and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington at Fortune'...
Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 11.26.2011 | Women
Anger was the typical response I got from my ex when I was honest with him about my feelings. His anger left me emotionally "hand shy," inwardly wincing before each anticipated strike.
Judith Orloff MD | Posted 01.25.2012 | Healthy Living