Nearly two years ago, I found myself standing in a humid, grimy motel room in Pennsylvania, talking to opioid addicts about what drove them to their addictions. At the time I was struck by the many ...

Dear Kimberly: We are living at a time when there’s so much visible loss and destruction. There are climate catastrophes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nakeya Fields is a licensed clinical social worker and chair of the Pasadena-based Black Mental Health Task Force. (Jason Armond / ...

This essay was adapted from remarks the author delivered at her synagogue, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, and at a conference of the Jewish women’s group Elluminate. Three weeks after the ...

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Deaths of Despair, a new book by Princeton economics professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton, begins with some sunny facts. For a little more than a hundred years in the United States, beginning in 1900 ...

Some mornings despair arrives before coffee. Not dramatically, not like a crashing wave or a siren, but quietly, like a fog: Soft at first, then everywhere. It shows up on my phone, in headlines, on ...