Check out these recent articles from around the web: Paid Maternity Leave Is Good for Business by Susan Wojcicki: “Support for motherhood shouldn’t be a matter of luck; it should be a matter of course. Paid maternity leave is good for mothers, families and business. America should have the good sense to join nearly every… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: America’s working families: Divided we fall by Michael Stafford: “More than six years have passed since the financial crisis, but its effects are still being felt. For most Americans, the economy remains a grim and frightening place — a source of anxiety, instead of hope.” The… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: The Word Made Toddler by Timothy O’Malley: “But what makes walking with my son so utterly slow is his total absorption in every facet of reality. Leaves are not merely to be walked upon but inspected as if every one of them is the very first… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: On Gratitude by Michael Sean Winters: “Gratitude is not a fleeting emotion, but a statement of faith, a stance born of faith and demanded by faith and blessed by faith. It is gratitude that allows us to bury old friends and welcome new ones, to receive… Read More Around the Web

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Check out these recent articles from around the web: Without Obamacare, I would have died by David Tedrow: “Bottom line, without insurance and the subsidy I would simply die, because I could not afford my drugs and my body would reject my liver.” Why the Press Is Less Free Today by George Packer: “Demagogues like… Read More Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Brittany Maynard’s Suffering by Michael Sean Winters: “No person filled with love can simply cease to exist. This is what we believe if we believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That is why our hope in the resurrection is a sure hope.” A Changed China… Read More Around the Web (Part 2)