Showing results for "Habits" in Politics & Government

The leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society "the aspirational class" and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class deepens the ever-wider class divide.

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from...

Deepak Chopra’s passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” In a world where every path to peace has proved futile, the one strategy that hasn’t been tried is the way of peace itself. “We must not...

"Genetic Heart Disease Risk Eased by Healthy Habits, Study Finds" is from the November 13, 2016 Health section of The New York Times. It was written by Gina Kolata and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"A Beat and a Bike: The First Lady’s Candlelit Habit" is from the US section of The New York Times. It was written by Julie Hirschfield Davis and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.