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WALK YOUR WAY TO GREATER PRODUCTIVITY

Reading Time: 3 minutes For the past couple months, however, I’ve begun adding walking into the mix, and I have to admit that now I really see what all the fuss has been about. Not only has it been good exercise that gets my heart rate up, it has also had a great impact on my mood, energy level, and my productivity at work. And, as you might expect, research supports my experience.

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Are You a Witch?

Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a reason that powerful women get called witches. The patriarchy has never been comfortable with women having power of any kind. Equality feels like oppression to those who have always had the upper hand. But our power is ours. And our magic is a result of that power. And our magic can save the world.

If powerful women using their own unique brand of magic to do good in the world is the definition of witch, then count me in and call me a witch. I know I’ll be in good company.

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Vox: Robert Mueller’s “collusion” case so far, explained

Reading Time: 8 minutes President Trump keeps insisting that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has found “no collusion” between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. But a close read of what we already know about what Mueller’s been doing suggests at the very least, some very questionable things were going on during the campaign.

Mueller’s team has already laid out a startling story in indictments, plea deals, and other court documents that are full of new revelations about the Trump team’s contacts with Russia that year — contacts that have moved from suspicious to downright scandalous.

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JUSSIE SMOLLETT: The headline, the drama, and the truth

Reading Time: 3 minutes There is no excuse for Jussie Smollett’s behavior, if the current narrative is the truth. And yet, he is one person, albeit famous, but only one. I have often thought that we will truly have overcome when the mainstream opinion of the African American (gay, Latinx, Muslim…) community won’t have to rise and fall because of the behavior of a few, whether they be exemplary or heinous.

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The most cost-effective way to help the homeless is to give them homes

Reading Time: 2 minutes The more recent uptick in homelessness, however, is a reminder that housing scarcity remains a major problem in America. And yet when it comes to the chronically homeless, you don’t need to fix everything to improve their lives. You don’t even really need new public money. What you need to do is target those resources at the core of the problem — a lack of housing — and deliver the housing, rather than spending twice as much on sporadic legal and medical interventions.

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