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In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change ...

Life often feels unjust. Good people face challenges, efforts fail despite hard work, and outcomes rarely match intentions. Yet, the Bhagavad Gita provides a lens to understand why this apparent ...

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Women have outlived men for more than a century in the U.S. Demographers have largely attributed this well-known statistical gap to differences in behaviors in areas such as smoking and drinking ...