Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early ...

Readers share different viewpoints on the abortion drug. Our research found that within 45 days following a mifepristone prescription, nearly 11% of women experience a serious adverse event. The ...

For the first time in Social Security's 90-year history, we witnessed the average monthly retired-worker benefit surpass $2,000. Additionally, the 2.7% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) passed along to ...

We see it every day—people across the globe are more polarized than ever. We're increasingly divided on important social issues, from climate change and the economy to racial justice and gender ...

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems ...

Business leaders have a new mandate: focus on core audiences and the issues that matter most to their companies, and help to solve social problems. Daryl Brewster, CEO of Chief Executives For ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

Psychology affects every aspect of our lives. How can we use this on an individual, communal, and structural level to address social problems? Joshua R. Wolff, Ph.D. (he/him) is a Licensed Clinical ...