Driven by revenge for a strike against his expensive Crimean bridge, Putin unleashed a barrage of attacks on Ukraine this week. Many of the people I love were caught up in it. The first words I heard...
Russia is mobilizing as Putin continues to lose his “three-day war” in Ukraine — and as someone who lived and worked in Russia for years, I must beg everyone else to do the following: Stop...
The Lord of the Rings is back and, in the first episode of the Rings of Power, it’s hard to tear your eyes from the massive pile of elven helmets left on the battlefield, as crows caw in the...
Mikhail Gorbachev was my first introduction to politics. I was very small, in a car being driven by my father, squashed in the backseat between relatives. Everyone was loudly arguing about Gorbachev...
When I was 18 years old, the fear of losing my parents overcame me. The terror faded when I realized that it would be much harder for them to lose a child. Eighteen years later, I faced the harsh...
I believe that nobody can really keep their cool when faced with the grotesque and the impossible. But after losing your cool, you can find it again. This is the hero’s real test — how to go on....
In her first book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristin Neff, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, teaches us how to open our minds and hearts to...
Not content with sitting on the sidelines during the Fossils Saying Stupid Things About Ukraine parade, former UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has given an interview to a pro-Russian, Beirut-based...
Have you ever spent hours on social networks without noticing how time went by? It is very common; it has happened to all of us. Although social media has many positive aspects, we also have to...
Andrew M McIntosh, University of Edinburgh and Cathryn Lewis, King's College London A recent study found inconsistent evidence linking the neurotransmitter serotonin to depression. In an article for...
