UNICEF Tackles Slacktivism

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How can nonprofits best make use of the watered down altruism of slacktivism?

A Bully Comes Around

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The issue of gay marriage leads a bully to introspection and empathy.

Empathy & Why the Rich are not More Generous than the Poor

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On the importance of bumping shoulders with people unlike ourselves.

Book Review: How to Find Fulfilling Work

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What’s the relationship between your work and your happiness?

5 Ways Cuddling Makes Us Healthier

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Touch releases oxytocin, which makes us feel better. But can hugging make us better human beings?

Why Pain Is a Wonderful Thing

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Don’t kill the messenger: pain is also the source of compassion.

Hyeonseo Lee: My Escape from North Korea

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Wilkine Brutus finds parts of himself and his own mother’s story in this riveting video by North Korean activist Hyeonseo Lee.

Are You Raising a Narcissist?

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The cultural and technological trends that are making us even more self-absorbed.

Steubenville: Crime, Punishment and Actual Change

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Julie Gillis is glad for the convictions in Steubenville, but believes that for meaningful change to happen, we must make changes on profound levels.

Troubled Kids and Guns

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Dan Kimber has seen pain and anger in too many kids during his career in education.

How One Person Can Improve a Relationship

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Communication skills anyone can learn to put the love back into their relationship.

I Like That My Ex-Wife’s Boyfriend Is Hairy

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Why another man’s back hair makes me happy.

What My Dog Taught Me About Friendship

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After former child actor Trevor Eyster became homeless, he learned the true meaning of friendship from a puppy called Jake.

How to Deal with a Psycho Bitch from Hell

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If you can’t listen to women with a higher consciousness, what you offer society as a whole is also limited, says Atalwin Pilon.

Shame Is Why We Fight

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When a man can’t soothe his woman’s anxieties, he has failed to protect her. And in our culture of masculinity, failed men are expendable.

Men Deserve Real Empathy, Not Deference

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Julie Gillis challenges a New York Times Op-Ed that insists that women should show deference to the men who feel they are losing privilege in a changing world.