A 2026 Wishlist: Resolutions for America & the World

Our wishlist for 2026 and our resolutions for the world. Happy New Year everyone – good health and peace.

• Can we agree that we are people first, and then gender? So why do we know more about the 1% than all the others? Feelings and real life are different – sorry, you simply cannot please everyone, especially " critics or perhaps haters." Or are lesbians the happiest people on Earth? Should we just not accept macho men and trophy girls as part of a community, or as normal? One resolution: trans athletes can play in men's sports – or would that be too macho?

United States: A 2025 Gallup poll found that 9.3% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+. Earlier studies show a range of 1.2% to 6.8% depending on methodology, with online surveys tending to produce higher numbers due to anonymity and reduced social-desirability pressure. Transgender and nonbinary identification: Williams Institute (2016): 0.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender. 2022 estimates: 0.5%–1.6% of adults identify as transgender or nonbinary. Pew (2022): 5% of young adults say their gender differs from sex assigned at birth.

• Judges and lawyers should become what their intended purpose is: represent the law, not find an interpretation that serves their clients' interests in politics and commerce – that includes immigration. Do away with excessive awards of "damages" and class actions. Regulate the legal industry with ethics and moral standards – that includes no contingency fees or a max of 10%, and a cap on hourly rates.

• Congress should work on mandates until resolved – marathon sessions in their respective chambers, not litigating politics on TV, especially healthcare and immigration.

• Curb NGOs in politics and Super PACs. In state elections, no out-of-state money.

• Politicians: memoir writing is cool; dirty laundry washing is gossip.

On the global stage, more cooperation, not power games – WHO, WTO, UN, EU, etc. If they all did their jobs, would we have war? Realize there are always two parties to a conflict, and spending the war money on people would resolve the sources of conflict – other than power itself. In short, let's get back to a merit-based system, and the party who won the election is the party in power.

As for resolutions (US): dialogues on arguments, not opinions. Conflict resolution in the interest of people, based on tolerance and communities (note: unhappy people have existed since human creation) – not on ideological views. Elections matter. Be a good citizen; discuss based on facts. But do we even have to discriminate between a walker versus a runner ? So how does running compare with walking? It's more efficient, for one thing, said Duck-chul Lee, a professor of physical activity epidemiology at Iowa State University. God forbid, weightlifting. Let's just start here: say hello next year to a cyclist on the runner's track. Epidemiology, literally meaning "the study of what is upon the people", is derived from Greek epi 'upon, among' demos 'people, district' and logos 'study, word, discourse', suggesting that it applies only to human populations. However, the term is widely used in studies of zoological populations (veterinary epidemiology), although the term "epizoology" is available, and it has also been applied to studies of plant populations (botanical or plant disease epidemiology).

And if nothing works your way, affordability did decline under Biden, and not everyone can afford the living wealth of Hollywood.