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On May 22, 2021, the pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an interview with Iranian political activist Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the late On May 22, 2021, the pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an interview with Iranian political activist Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the late Iranian Expediency Council chairman, former Iranian president, and leader of Iran's pragmatic camp. The interview was conducted by Inde...

The Atlantic Voluntarily sacrificing pleasurable things resets your senses and makes you master of yourself. ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. We have just entered the season of Lent, a time to pray and fast to commemorate Jesus’s 40-day sojourn into the desert at the beginning of his public ministry. About a quarter of Americans—including 61 percent of Catholics—typically observe Lent through voluntary sacrifice, fasting, almsgiving, an...

Why Your To-Do List Never Ends For many Americans, there’s more to do, and less mental bandwidth with which to do it. Alex Merto A common 21st-century complaint is that life didn’t used to be as busy as it is today, but some people are more likely to think so than others. According to Liana Sayer, the director of the University of Maryland’s Time Use Laboratory, many Americans who are employed, married, a parent, or a college graduate feel shorter on time today than people in those situat...