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Resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland by Sen. Gallego

Resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland by Sen. Gallego

Published by Sam Flores

Sen. Ruben Gallego said Tuesday that he was introducing a resolution to block President Donald Trump from invading Greenland. “WAKE UP,” Gallego, D-Ariz., wrote on the social media site X, as the Trump administration ratcheted up rhetoric about the United States taking over Greenland, which is a self-governing Danish territory. “Trump is telling us exactly what he wants to do. We must stop him before he invades another country on a whim,” Gallego wrote. “I’m introducing a resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland. No more forever wars.” Trump, in an interview over the weekend with The Atlantic magazine, said he would leave it to others to determine if the recent U.S. attack on Venezuela to capture its leader, Nicolas Maduro, had implications for Greenland. But he also said, “We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defense.” “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it, I can tell you,” Trump said separately on Sunday aboard Air Force One. Gallego on Monday …

Why My 2026 Resolution Is to Start Drinking Again

Why My 2026 Resolution Is to Start Drinking Again

Published by Jenni Sidey

This story is part of our ‘Habits to Embrace—and Ditch—in 2026’ series. Read the whole list here. This past summer, I went all in on nonalcoholic drinks. I’m lucky enough to have never had a dependency on alcohol, but there are plenty of other reasons to ditch booze. As a health journalist of over a decade, I was well aware of the medical consensus that alcohol is bad for you. Meanwhile, the growing nonalcoholic movement—with its logical appeal and increasingly diverse and celebrity-backed options—had grown hard to ignore. (Also, hangovers in your mid-thirties are savage.) So I unpacked a couple cases of Athletic beer into my fridge and set about on a mid-year resolution of sobriety. I lasted about three months. To be fair, it was a strong quarter. Cracking beers, knowing they’d have no bearing on me in the morning, was a cheat code. My bar tabs, which quickly became few and far between, were microscopic. Winning games of pool and Skee-Ball against friends who were a few beers in was almost too easy. …

Commentary: What to do if you fail at your New Year’s resolution

Commentary: What to do if you fail at your New Year’s resolution

Published by Sam Flores

FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL A constructive way to discuss your failed resolution is to focus on the controllability of the failure. Research shows that most resolutions will require some investment of time and of money. For example, getting in shape takes time for exercise and also normally requires money for a gym membership or for workout equipment. Because both of these resources are essential for pursuing our goals, many failed resolutions are due to the lack of either time or money, or both. When talking about a failed resolution in the past, I’ve showed in my own research that we should focus on how lack of money contributed to this failure, rather than lack of time. In my 2024 study, people read about fictional as well as real panel participants who failed either due to lack of money or lack of time. Most participants felt the person whose failure was caused by lack of money would have more self-control going forward and was going to be more reliable at pursuing their goals. This …

The Books Briefing: A Reading Resolution You Can Keep

The Books Briefing: A Reading Resolution You Can Keep

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book critic. “Everyone has read less than you think they have,” I told her immediately. I reassured her that in some respects, making your way through the world’s great literature is a numbers game: Someone twice your age has simply spent more time on the planet—and has therefore had more time to turn pages. But no number of hours can fill every gap in the knowledge of a mortal reader, even one who’s a professional critic. Someone who seems frighteningly erudite might, at this very moment, be kicking themselves for being unable to read the French canon in its original language. Someone who has devoted their life to studying poetic traditions could be totally out of their depth in a discussion of Heated Rivalry, Rachel Reid’s hockey-themed romance novel (and its buzzy TV adaptation). First, here are five new stories …

A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep

A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep

Published by Jenni Sidey

Is there something you’d like to accomplish this year? According to one study, you’re 10 times more likely to accomplish it if you make it a New Year’s resolution. And yet, resolutions have an abysmal track record. John Tierney, co-author of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (with psychologist Roy Baumeister), predicts that by the end of January, a third of resolutions will already be broken. By July, more than half will be abandoned. In the end, some research indicates, only about eight percent of people who make New Year’s resolutions succeed in keeping them. Much has been written about how to hold yourself to that New Year’s declaration of change. But what if the problem is less about motivation than the kind of resolutions we’re making? Most resolutions are aspirational: Exercise more, drink less, spend less time online. They rely on willpower to carry us through the year. When willpower falters, the resolution collapses. But there is another kind of resolution—one that doesn’t require self-reinvention yet has the potential to transform. It’s also one …

Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now

Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now

Published by Daniella Wilson

Along with champagne and fireworks, nothing is more quintessential to New Year’s than abandoning one’s best efforts at self-improvement. Surveys have found that less than 10 percent of Americans who make resolutions stick to them for a year. By the end of February 2024, according to a survey conducted by the Harris Poll, about half of respondents who set resolutions had already given up on them. (I’m impressed they lasted that long. My latest resolution was to stop wasting time scrolling, and minutes later I was online, researching what people typically do to spend less time online.) Clearly, the way Americans have been approaching this whole resolution business—that is, tackling our challenges head-on—simply does not work. If you want 2026 to be different, you have to try something new and bold. So let me offer a counterintuitive piece of advice: To make your New Year’s promise stick this year, consider breaking it before you even get started. Absurd as it may sound, purposefully working against what you would like to achieve is a well-established intervention …

Why Sleep Should Be Your Main New Year’s Resolution In 2026

Why Sleep Should Be Your Main New Year’s Resolution In 2026

Published by Sam Flores

You’ve probably heard how unsuccessful most New Year’s resolutions are – in part, Dr Claire Kaye told the BBC, because we set them for a version of ourselves that does not exist. Still, the University of Plymouth wrote that “You are ten times more likely to achieve your goal if you make a resolution than if you do not.” They, too, say that people “commonly underestimate the strength of the future cravings and desires that could derail their resolution” when setting goals. Want to get around that? I’ll be trying to set a goal that I know I enjoy this year: sleeping more. And Denise Iordache, sleep therapist and founder of JoySpace Therapy, thinks this is the way forward, too. Why is better sleep a good New Year’s resolution? First of all, it helps you to achieve your other goals. Recent research from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine [AASM] found that good nutrition and exercise are key to better sleep. It follows that if you want to follow the evidence-based path to great kip, …

What to do if you fail at your new year resolution

What to do if you fail at your new year resolution

Published by skeptic

Every year, many of us bravely announce our resolutions for the new year. A glass of champagne on New Year’s Eve might add to our confidence in our ability to do better in the coming year and save more, spend less, eat better, work out more, or binge-watch less. But most of our resolutions fail. Even within the first weeks after New Year’s Eve, the majority of people have given up on them. Yet, not all tales of failure are the same, because the way you talk about the failure matters for your own motivation and other people’s confidence in your ability to try again. So what can we do after we’ve given up on our resolution? We’ve announced our good intentions to friends and family and now must admit failure. Research has shown the way you word your failed resolution can affect how people view it. And understanding the reasons most resolutions don’t work out can help us see it through in the future. Indeed, you can talk about your resolutions in a way …

Stranger Things season 5 star teases “resolution” for key character in “emotional” finale

Stranger Things season 5 star teases “resolution” for key character in “emotional” finale

Published by Daniella Wilson

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Stranger Things season 5 volume 2. The end is near for Stranger Things season 5, with fans now awaiting the finale, which has been in the making for almost a decade. For Kali star Linnea Berthelsen, it marks the end of a unique journey, with the actress returning for season 5 after she was first introduced to viewers eight years earlier in season 2. By the end of season 5 volume 2, Kali and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) have an impossible decision ahead of them, grappling with the idea of sacrificing themselves for the greater good after the reveal that Dr Kay (Linda Hamilton) has used Kali’s blood to restart Dr Brenner’s programme. As for where Kali is headed in the finale? “Towards some sort of resolution,” Berthelsen teased in an interview with RadioTimes.com. “I think that’s the only thing I can say. There is an end to her storyline, and it’s something that, for me, felt very right and very emotional.” Linnea Berthelsen as Kali, Millie Bobby …

Trump’s 2026 Resolution: Give People Money

Trump’s 2026 Resolution: Give People Money

Published by Daniella Wilson

President Donald Trump can hardly conceal his disgust for the word affordability, referring to its ascendance in America’s political lexicon as a “hoax,” a “con job,” and a “fake narrative” perpetuated by Democrats. But there’s one sign that he’s treating it like a very real political vulnerability: The former reality-television host is trying to give people cash. In recent weeks, Trump has been pitching half a dozen schemes to, in the words of White House officials, put money “straight into the pockets of the American people.” After a year in which Americans’ pocketbooks have been walloped by Trump’s tariffs, cuts to the social safety net, and apparent nonchalance in the face of spiking health-care costs, the president is turning to the allure of sweepstakes-style checks from the government to help coax voters out of their financial malaise ahead of next year’s midterm elections. It likely won’t work, economists from across the political spectrum told me; one likened the payments to a bandage over a bullet wound. Trump has floated a payment of $2,000 to most …