As we look ahead to the new year, hope seems to be in short supply. Recent surveys have found that sizable majorities of Americans believed the United States was on track to become economically weaker ...

America has become a country of cynics. At least, that’s what studies show.People don’t trust each other, the media or the government. Most Americans, about 80 percent, don’t feel confident ...

There is a children’s story I used to read to my daughters when they were 3 and 4 years old. It comes from Arnold Lobel’s “Frog and Toad” series and involves a big batch of ...

The Harry Potter audiobooks helped Katy Milkman make a foundational discovery about exercise behavior.A Harvard graduate student at the time, she was struggling to work out. Once a varsity tennis ...