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As many of us know personally, the coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on mental health. As lockdowns were enacted, loneliness, isolation, and depression increased. Concerns of loved ones dying and fear of contracting the virus affected our well-being. Since April of 2020, about 40 percent of US adults have reported symptoms of depression and anxiety. In 2019, that figur...
How has extreme individual freedom led to a crisis of isolation?
How can 20 hours of focused practice help you develop surprising levels of new skills?
How the clothing industry can change to help the planet.
People are in constant conversation with their dogs, says dog scientist Alexandra Horowitz, and dogs pick up on things like our tone of voice. "We think meaning is all in the words but for them, the meaning is in the context, and they’re working very hard to understand it.” Horowitz studies dog cognition and the relationship between dogs and their human owners. She runs th...
In the United States, the number of people attending church is declining. So where are people going to find meaning and community?
When Duke divinity school professor Kate Bowler wrote her best-selling memoir, “Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved),” she was grappling with the consequences of a shocking cancer diagnosis. Many of the common messages about hardship, tragedy and success that she’d grown up hearing – and even studied as a religious scholar – no longer seemed to make...
What role does faith play in bringing people together?
Explore the role of faith in public conversation
So much of adult life is about learning the rules and then using those rules to navigate the world. We become certain that we know what we know — that we’re right, and we’re safer and more secure that way. But certainty, argues neuroscientist Beau Lotto, might actually be one of society’s biggest sources of emotional and physical unwellness. Certainty causes us to have les...
Ahead of the midterms, what are we hearing about the candidates, the campaigns, and the issues?
Michelle Obama says play, nutrition, and physical activity aren’t available to every child.
The Covid-19 crisis isn’t easy to bear as adults but what about young kids and teenagers?
The Aspen Institute remembers and mourns Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, who passed away on March 23, 2022. She was a diplomat, professor, author, business leader, and the first woman to be the U.S. Secretary of State. In 2018, she raised the alarm on dangerous world leadership with her book “Fascism: A Warning,” calling out the regimes of Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin,...
What if you examined your life in the context of all of its stages?
Trust in civic, religious, and academic institutions is at an all-time low in America.
Yale's Laurie Santos gives a crash course on how to feel less stressed and depressed.
The average American spends a third of his or her life working.
It's already difficult to talk about politics in a polarized United States, but a few choice words are making it even harder.
Looking around and experiencing the suffering and injustice in the world can make it difficult to believe that happiness exists. But the Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that it’s sinful to succumb to despair, and we have a responsibility to ourselves and others to try and find our way through dark times. On the other hand, when you avoid suffering, you avoid meaning, and...