Some research suggests that unhappiness does not predispose people to illness.

There are distinct questions here:

1. Factual: does being unhappy tend to cause other sorts of harm to you?
2. Moral: is unhappiness something unfortunate that happens to you, or is it wrong on your part?

The research suggests that the answer to (1) is no. That's fortunate, for unhappy people. But whatever the answer to (1) is, it does not mean that being unhappy is blameworthy. If there is no ethical, reliable way to decide to be happy, then your unhappiness is no more your fault than an injury or a birth defect.

France's constitution may be changed to support long-term repressive "states of emergency".

The main points of the deal agreed in Paris.

Paris climate agreement 'may signal end of fossil fuel era', according to optimists.

This agreement could very well start a process leading towards truly curbing global heating. I fear we can't afford to lose that time in getting started. The agreement will still raise global temperatures 3 to 4 degrees centigrade. The problem is, it involves "no action, just promises". When a country adopts a long-term emissions target without policies that will realize it, it may never adopt suitable policies. By the time the target is not met, it is too late.

Atheists in Lincoln, Nebraska, booked all the exhibition space in the state capitol building so that no sectarian exhibit can be presented about Christmas.

It is not right to promote a religion in a state capitol building. It is also not right to censor any view by cornering the market on places to present it, but the atheists didn't do that. There must be plenty of places in Lincoln, outside the capitol, where manger displays for Christmas can be set up — churches, for instance.

"Until governments undertake to keep fossil fuels in the ground, they will continue to undermine agreement they have just made."