American Polarization, Measuring Generosity, Improving Love

Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America Dr. James E Campbell is a UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, Sate University of New York. Healthy debate and good public discourse is healthy for a strong representative government.   But when debates go from “this idea vs that idea” to “us vs you” we might be battling a problem of polarization.  Dr. Campbell, the author of Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America explains the division in our country. Why money is an impoverished metric of generosity Dr. Richard Gunderman is Chancellor’s professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University.  Often we hear about people like John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie as some of the most generous Americans of all times. Lists of the most generous philanthropists in the US are regularly produced to show how much these men and women give away. But these lists distort our understanding of generosity. Dr. Gunderman recently released an article about charitiable giving and how time is many times more valuable than money. Help You Fall More Deeply in Love Lesli Doares, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, marriage coach and author of Blueprint for a Lasting Marriage,  How to Create Your Happily Ever After With More Intention, Less Work. When you first fall in love it seems natural to leave love notes, make dinner for your partner, and fight to spend every waking moment with them. But after a while we let those little things slip. We become comfortable with spending less time and putting in less effort. But those little things are what helped you and your partner fall in love in the first place- and those little things are what help you continue to fall in love over time. Lesli Doares  discuss the article, “8 Tricks to Help You Fall More Deeply In Love.”