The Trouble With Giving Stuff
By Ashley Davidson Nothing feels quite so good as purging the old closet and filling a sack or two with last year’s fashions, old college teeshirts, and the like. Nothing, that is, except donating said
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The Imagined Reality of the 1 Percent
Arista Burwell-Chen Recently, Imara Jones wrote an article for ColorLines detailing just how out of touch with reality the top 1 percent of Americans are. He writes, “The massive accumulation of wealth
Rethinking Prosperity as Gross National Happiness Instead of Gross National Product
In the United States we measure prosperity using Gross National Product (GNP). In South Asia, the Bhutanese people measure their country’s prosperity using Gross National Happiness (GNH). There, success
How Does Media Rhetoric Influence Our Values As A Nation?
How exactly does media rhetoric influence our values? According to market research firm Yankelovich, the average city resident is bombarded with 3,000 to 5,000 advertisements per day. We are constantly