For Courtney E. Martin, her multi-generational household has been an advanced education in teamwork, patience, connection, ...

After serving jail time for a murder she didn't commit, Amanda Knox went on a journey of compassion, healing, and forgiveness ...

Real self-care helps us manage stress in healthy ways—but some things we turn to for comfort don't fit that bill.

A philosopher suggests that we don't have to like each other in order to overcome polarization and work together.

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The more we’ve invested in past decisions, the more reluctant we are to bail out. But we can correct this bias by counting ...

A new study examines how comfortable and attuned people are when talking with others, depending on their socioeconomic status.

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Each year, the World Happiness Report attracts attention with rankings that label some countries as the “happiest” and others as the “unhappiest.” These lists often spark national pride, ...

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The Grand Prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival follows three women who migrated from small Indian villages to work at a busy Mumbai hospital, as they navigate loneliness, longing, and ...

It was 1985 and John Lawn had seen enough. In Boston nightclubs and Dallas bars, MDMA—better known by its street name, ecstasy—had become an enormously popular recreational drug. It had also terrified ...