Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.
The war on Christmas, it’s been well documented, is not a real thing. Though there are disputes about whether or not it’s rude to say “Merry Christmas” to the less than 10 percent of Americans who don…
Episode 2 By The Numbers: Crying Meltdowns: 4 Fights: 1 Bottles of Wine Consumed: 1 Incidents of Twerking: 1 “We’re All Broken,” the title of Episode Two of “The Sisterhood,” reminds me of a poem…
In November, while governor Jay Nixon declared the controversy in Ferguson to be a state of emergency, another racially charged protest was under way in the Netherlands. On November 15 the town of…
Chalk up the lack of religion in this post to the flurry of planning, cooking and binging demanded by the American god of Thanksgiving. To its aftermath, actually. Taking a break from the regular news…
