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Some Americans find themselves stuck, unable to let go of the comfort blanket of early-pandemic guidelines.

The Atlantic The colorful and joyful ceremony didn’t feel like a crisis-era bureaucratic procedure. January 21, 2021 American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.Patrick Semansky / Pool via REUTERS Everyone knows that Joe Biden’s presidential aesthetic is purposefully boring: He’s promising a national nap time after Donald Trump’s violent four-year kegger. “Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire,” the new president said ...

that can help us rearticulate the future Certain emotions, such as feelings of empathy, gratitude and awe – evolved to help manage social relationships with others and orient humans to a world that is bigger than ourselves – without needing to overtax resource-intensive, rational thought processes. These emotions also help delay the need for instant gratification or reward, being essential to the evaluation of simulated possible futures, and can be geared toward long-term thinking and long...

But there’s controversy. Trump’s visit will be capped by fireworks for the first time in a decade, notwithstanding worries that pyrotechnics could ignite wildfires. And Native Americans are planning protests, adding Mount Rushmore to the list of monuments around the world that critics see as commemorating histories of racism, slavery and genocide and reinforcing white supremacy. As I show in my book, “Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment, and Public Memory at American Historical Sites,�...

A recent poll puts her in a three way tie for fifth place. a devastating york times in depth report on her campaign flaws read like an autopsy complete with the headline in the past tense of her campaign leaving us wondering, will she soon be following in the footprints of others who have already dropped out and faded from public memory. whats going on. >> i never really took her that seriously as a threat. for a couple reasons. i live in california which, the three of us do here, and when you a...

Three way tie for fifth place. a devastating york times in depth report on her campaign flaws read like an autopsy complete with the headline in the past tense of her campaign leaving us wondering, will she soon be following in the footprints of others who have already dropped out and faded from public memory. whats going on. >> i never really took her that seriously as a threat. for a couple reasons. i live in california which, the three of us do here, and when you ask people here around califo...

That nelson mandela made and for the people of south africa and ultimately the world. but often when a great leader passes on, what we think we know about that person and the truth become two different things. after death, the legacies of great leaders are often usurped and punched of any imperfection. this is exactly what happened with dr. martin luther king jr. his contributions are often confined to racial equality battles when his message was, in fact, much larger than that. remember, it was...