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.

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

An educator made a small change to the way she gave feedback on assignments—with big results for students' engagement and ...

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

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

Every year, we invite staff and regular contributors to nominate TV series for Greater Goodies, the awards we give to stories that exemplify or illustrate kindness, community, empathy, and more keys ...

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, ...

After making a gesture that many interpreted as a Nazi salute, Elon Musk rejected the idea that he himself was a Nazi, or that any invocation of the movement’s symbols could be harmful. “What’s ...

At 7:46 a.m. on November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire jumped the Feather River in Northern California. Driven by 40-mile-an-hour winds and months of desiccating drought, it moved so fast that bulldozers ...

A long time ago, someone—I no longer remember exactly who—described America’s struggle to deal with race as America’s great “national tripwire,” lying dormant until some hapless soul stumbles across ...