How socialism became un-American through the Ad Council’s propaganda campaigns
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
Exercise and Mental Health: What Working Out Does for the Brain | Elemental
" It’s frustrating, and quite frankly a little insulting, to read articles and tweets chastising depressed people for not exercising and advising them to go for a walk as if they hadn’t thought of that before."
Fear and Loyalty: How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party - The New York Times
The president demands complete fealty, and as the impeachment hearings showed, he has largely attained it. To cross him is to risk losing a future in the Republican Party.
Why Successful People Probably Get Too Much Credit - Forge
I've long considered writing a book on failure. You learn more that way. And I've seen so many people lauded as experts for being in the right place at the right time by no choice of their own.
The bee population is plummeting and the ecosystems and food systems that depend on their pollination are declining. One startup’s solution to the incoming beepocalypse is to make better bees.
Universal Income vs the Robots: Meet the Presidential Candidate Fighting Automation
"It’s much more feasible to modify our capital flows than it is to overhaul over dysfunctional educational system or train millions of Americans for jobs that they may or may not be well suited for."
Iowa's farmers – and American eaters – need a national discussion on transforming US agriculture
Investing in farming methods that improve lands and water, and in rural infrastructure and markets, could bring new prosperity to agricultural communities.
We're the Patriotic Millionaires and we want America's wealthy to pay more taxes | Jonathan Ruga and Scott Young | Opinion | The Guardian
A group of wealthy Americans from all walks of life across red, blue and purple states are united under the idea that our system is fundamentally broken
Apparently, I’ve been radicalized and I wasn’t aware. Certain people call me the “radical Left” all the time. I never considered myself radical before. I just thought I was normal, ordinary, usual. I thought equity was important to everyone. I imagined America was filled with people who took that Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness […]