When It Comes to Your Health, Your Local Economy Matters
Research shows community traits such as quality of housing and employment can influence wellness.
Health & Happiness
This Japanese Concept of Happiness Could Help You Live a More Meaningful Life
Focusing on your own happiness can prove self-defeating. Finding your 鈥渋kigai鈥� offers an alternative perspective on well-being.
We Need Radical Imagination
Imagination, as Hawaiian Native rights advocate Poka Laenui describes it, is more than an antidote to hopelessness. It is a source of power.
A Letter to Ursula Le Guin After Her Departure
When I lost hope in this world, you offered me a plethora of fully formed universes to learn from.
5 Ways You Can Support a Loved One With Depression
How to move beyond 鈥渁wareness鈥� toward better understanding.
Is Your Weekend Helping or Hurting Your Happiness?
New research offers some simple advice to boost your happiness: Put down your phone and go do something鈥攋ust about anything鈥攅lse.
Swedish Death Cleaning: Don鈥檛 Forget Your Digital Clutter, Too
If we don鈥檛 make the decisions about what to keep or discard鈥攚hether actual or online鈥攖hen ultimately it鈥檚 up to others.
Call for Submissions: Solutions to Our Housing Crisis
Send us your pitches by Feb. 1.
Books Inspiring Us: 鈥淏eing the Change鈥�
In his new book, NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus explores the daily practices that build healthy, happy, and resilient communities.
Me Too Creator Tarana Burke Reminds Us This Is About Black and Brown Survivors
There鈥檚 another 鈥渕e too鈥� story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.
After Erica Garner鈥檚 Death, I Can鈥檛 Breathe Through the Tears
Perhaps our grief can spark people to join the movement to end the oppression.
The Fierce Urgency of 鈥淗ow鈥�
When we have reconsidered the lives we have built, how will we live?
The Best of 2017: Books on How to Stay Resilient and Live a Meaningful Life
The year鈥檚 most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books to help you thrive in a turbulent world.
Nature Is So Good for You That Even Watching It on TV Improves Well-Being
Watching a few minutes of 鈥淧lanet Earth鈥� can lead you to feel 46 percent more awe and 31 percent more gratitude.
As American as Apple Pie, Bourbon, and Slave Labor
Nostalgia, at its best, is a tidy fantasy that erases many of us.
Building a Co-op Allowed These Musicians to Quit Their Day Jobs
With no major labels in Minneapolis, this hip-hop group started their own label.
How I Changed My Holiday Traditions to Match My Values
Five ways to celebrate without feeling financially and emotionally overwhelmed.
12 Reasons Biking Is About to Get Way More Popular
It鈥檚 no longer a white-people thing, a big city thing, or an ultra-fit athlete thing.
How to Decolonize the Way You Think About Your Body
When it comes to eating disorder awareness, communities of color are too often left out of the conversation.
Infographic: How Money Influences Your Happiness (and Vice Versa)
For a joyful economy, spread the wealth.
The Problem With 鈥淪ilence Breakers鈥� as TIME鈥檚 Person of the Year
I decided to search for two words on the article鈥檚 web page: 鈥減atriarchy鈥� or 鈥渕isogyny.鈥� Zero results.
Pocahontas Is Not a Name That Should Offend You
She is a reminder of the indigenous women who are missing and murdered every year.
New Study Links Living Near Forests to Healthier Brains
Evidence keeps mounting that, in stressful times, there is much to gain by surrounding yourself with plants and trees.
These People Are Transforming What Happens After You Die
Meet the morticians offering compassionate practices for dealing with death.
It鈥檚 Not Just Sleep That鈥檚 Important to Your Well-Being. It鈥檚 Dreaming, Too
People say time heals all wounds, but new research suggests that time spent in dream sleep is what really matters.
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