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Stress

Serena Wadhwa

April 18, 2017

Our nation is in transition and this is stressful. By definition the concept of stress relates to the perception of responsibilities, demands on your everyday life, your resources and your abilities. It’s not just our immediate environment, which includes things like our job, family, and our community influencing our experience of stress. The passage of time can be stressful, as can the broader system of the culture or demographic area we...

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Politics

From Denver: The Law

Devan Kingsford

April 18, 2017

Not far from where I live in a swarm of suburban housing, there is a federal prison. Usually my exposure to this compound is limited; I often take, out of conscience or convenience, Wadsworth Blvd instead, a road not inhabited by the hulking reminder of our broken penal system.

But not long ago I was driving with my 9-year-old nephew to an odd part of town, not North West towards Denver like I usually gravitate ---ebb and flow,...

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Travel

From Nebraska: Following Park Rules

Kindra Foster

April 18, 2017

From Nebraska

Following Park Rules: Ignorance is No Longer an Excuse for Smart Phone Owners

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Politics

Freedom Spent

Patricia Vaccarino

April 18, 2017

When I was in college, a professor suggested that I read Freedom Spent by the legal writer Richard Harris. Freedom Spent was a narrative of three case studies in which Americans lost their civil liberties during legal proceedings that adhered to the letter of the law, or abided by a strict constructionist (narrow) interpretation of the law that disregarded the...

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Books

Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday

Barbara McMichael

April 16, 2017

PR for People® Reviews: By Barbara Lloyd McMichael Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday

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Entertainment

Jumping Around | George Wallace, Morgan Freeman, D.C. Benny, Jessimae Peluso

Jeffrey Gurian

April 14, 2017

THIS COLUMN ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON theinterrobang.com

I popped in at New York Comedy Club to catch Paul Virzi running his set, at one of those quarterly shows they’re doing where comics get the opportunity to...

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Politics

Liberal, Conservative, Reactionary (A Tutorial)

David Bresler

April 14, 2017

So, the labels “Liberal,” “Conservative,” and “Reactionary” are regularly bandied about and employed like edged weapons. There seems to be no stronger epithet these days, one of these labels in the hands of an adversary. But, let’s spend a moment examining each of them.

A Liberal, according to Webster, is someone open to new behaviors or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

A...

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Tribal

Is Indigenous Wisdom the Way Forward?

JoAnne Dyer

April 13, 2017

Indigenous wisdom inspires activist Winona LaDuke and her filmmaker Keri Pickett.

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Politics

Break the Law

Patricia Vaccarino

April 13, 2017

As much as Americans uphold the law, there is a pervading distrust of any law. At the heart of American culture, our democratic values enable us all to voice a healthy skepticism of law, social order, and the government. It is part of our enduring American legacy to question authority. Despite a penchant for authority, it is still a fundamental drive in every American to want to break the law.

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Politics

Protester Arrests: 2007-17

Anna Faktorovich

April 09, 2017

Civil disobedience has been practiced by peaceful protesters long before Henry Thoreau penned the essay with this name after a night in jail for refusing to pay the poll tax. In the US, when protester arrests are mentioned, Rosa Parks’ and Dr. Martin Luther King’s bus protest comes to mind together with an understanding of its roots in the Indian independence movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi. In the last decade, there has been a spike in...