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 ...

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; ...

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 ...