Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people whose candidate just won are ...

Hope has always been present in leadership quests aiming to achieve better futures. Hope has been an intriguing topic throughout the history of humankind. Many thinkers, from the ancient Greeks to ...

There's a sense, once a whisper, that's growing louder every day. Glaciers are melting; children are being slaughtered; hatred runs rampant. Sometimes it feels like the world's approaching a nadir. Or ...

I look at a lot of numbers at work, searching for patterns that could represent some serious health condition. The other day, in the emergency department at Sutter Alta Bates Medical Center in Oakland ...

Hope feels elusive in America right now. Suicides and fatal drug overdoses—so-called deaths of despair resulting from a seeming lack of hope—are at unprecedented levels. Mental-health problems are on ...

I know I sometimes feel cynicism or despair when I think about the new year, and it seems many of my friends do, too. With so much uncertainty and seemingly intractable world problems needing ...

Christian van Nieuwerburgh does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

I remember back in 2007 when I learned about the Nisour Square massacre in Iraq. A family member was murdered that day. Along with Iraqis around the world, I felt the jolting trauma and helplessness ...

There are about 8.2 billion people in the world, each with their own hopes for the coming year. So as I did for my turn-of-the-year letters last year and the year before, I asked a variety of people, ...

Ned had a tremendous sense of humor. He delighted in telling people that he had spent his life collecting over a thousand jokes. “And that’s not including the dirty ones,” he often admitted with only ...