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Allison Mack Breaks Silence
on NXIVM, Her Own Abuse

Nov 12, 2025 8:19 AM CST

Allison Mack Breaks Silence on NXIVM, Her Own Abuse

Former Smallville star says she was "callous," "emotionally aggressive" to sex cult victims

(Newser) - Allison Mack, best known for her role in Smallville, has broken her silence about her involvement in the notorious NXIVM sex cult, describing her actions as "abusive" in a new podcast. Speaking for the first time since her release from federal prison, Mack, 43, reflects on the influence she...

A Better Life Lies Just Beyond These 10 Obstacles

We can achieve more if we recognize the roadblocks, writes Steve Roy

(Newser) - We’re all looking for more in life, but it's easy to get sidetracked—and crippled—by chronic stresses. In order to move forward, we need to identify the obstacles in front of us. Steve Roy at Dumb Little Man recommends 10 things we can change that will allow us...

Positive Thinking Can Make You Feel Worse: Study

Jun 22, 2009 10:10 AM CDT

Positive Thinking Can Make You Feel Worse: Study

Affirmations don't help low self-esteem

(Newser) - It turns out the Little Engine That Could had it all wrong. Repeating positive statements to yourself doesn’t appear to help people with low self-esteem, according to a new study. Researchers asked students to repeat statements like “I am a lovable person” to themselves, then measured their mood....

50 Ways to Improve Your 2009

Jan 1, 2009 5:50 PM CST

50 Ways to Improve Your 2009

Resolutions for your health, wealth and playful self

(Newser) - Just in case your pledge to exercise more didn’t satiate your need for self-improvement resolutions, US News and World Report offers 50 more ways to improve your life in 2009. Here are a few:

Pack up for Vermont: When it comes to healthy habits and community, the Green Mountain

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Gimmicky Green Authors
Wouldn't Impress Thoreau

OPINION

Dec 28, 2008 5:34 AM CST

Gimmicky Green Authors Wouldn't Impress Thoreau

Writers often more into self promotion than self denial

(Newser) - Modern-day Henry David Thoreaus don't need to move to the woods for life to land a book deal. The push for green living has given us, unfortunately, no small number of gimmicky books on the subject, laments Michael Agger in Mother Jones. Temporarily living without plastic, eating only locally grown...

Sontag's
Early
Journals
Mesmerize

book review

Dec 16, 2008 6:15 PM CST

Sontag's Early Journals Mesmerize

Journals tell a touching tale of earnest self-creation

(Newser) - The newly released diaries of a young Susan Sontag provide an invaluable glimpse of how the writer-to-be came to be, critics say. “I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person," the late Sontag writes of journaling. "I create myself."...