Three years before he vowed, in “Carrion Comfort”, not to feast on despair, the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins grieved the physical decay of growing old: “And wisdom is early to despair: / Be beginning; ...

By Michael J. Brooks Social researcher Frank Luntz published “Words That Work” in 2007. He explained words have a denotative ...

Kathie Lee Gifford shared the thing that brought her out of “a black place” of despair. “The last two years, because of the ...

The pair hosted a conversation on transforming despair into hope and action with Dr. Laurie Santos, a Yale University psychology professor and host of The Happiness Lab. On IMO, Obama and ...

Bruni agreed with Goldberg’s characterization of Trump’s term, telling her, "I don’t have children and I feel so much despair and fear and heartache about what’s going on, and I often ...

An Israeli military operation has uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians who can’t break their fast in their own homes and don’t know when, or if, they will ever return. By Fatima ...

We often mistake demoralization for depression, but it’s distinct. “It often appears first, as a warning sign,” says ...

King Charles admitted to a moment of "silent despair" after falling from his mount at the Cheltenham Festival. Shortly before ...

The bustle of Ramadan markets has been reduced to a trickle of sombre shoppers. A heavy silence has replaced lively chatter. No lanterns glow in windows, and the strings of lights that criss ...

March 14, 2025 • Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the way the world responds to infectious disease.