The founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity reflects on the greatest challenges and opportunities of longer ...

Parenting a teen can sometimes make you nostalgic for the early years, when you could still scoop up a frustrated toddler and ...

AI might be able to help us find love if there are underlying patterns in whom we're compatible with—which is still an open ...

Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we’re offering a special Happiness & ...

Love, care, kindness, and compassion happen all the time in public spaces in cities. Here's how to better understand and spot ...

Films that explore the resentments, fantasies, secrets, and compromises in romantic relationships might bring up difficult ...

Undergraduate students surveyed their own generation—and found more optimism about bridging divides than in any other age ...

We create caricatures and tell stories of people from other groups that make it hard for us to see their full humanity.

Feeling that your life has meaning is fundamental to the experience of being human, and people who feel this way tend to be healthier and happier. Given the importance that most people place on ...

Two years ago, I published a report showing that schools in San Francisco were becoming increasingly segregated by race. In the public debate that followed, no one disputed the facts. However, I was ...

Beginning in the late 19th century and continuing through the mid-20th century, communities across the country relied largely on women’s unpaid civic labor to create welcome, integration, and ...

It’s time again for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify human strengths and virtues.