With summer, most look forward to enjoying the sunshine and sandy beaches. But for many, it also causes negative feelings about body image, vacation envy and other feelings of dissatisfaction. The ...

Each year the Gallup organization polls people from 120 countries around the world to find out if they are satisfied with the freedom they have to choose what to do with their lives. In 2006, the U.S.

We have many ways to describe the turbulent character of the political present: the populist moment, democratic backsliding, the authoritarian turn. But if a new analysis of global trends in public ...

Will Iran's deep economic woes lead to regime change? A wave of protests is sweeping across Iran, which is mired in a deep ...

I hadn’t looked through Pema Chodron’s books in years until I came across them while packing my office for a move this week. She’s a buddhist nun and an internationally renown expert on using tough ...

"The first requisite of civilization ... is that of justice," wrote Sigmund Freud in his 1930 book Civilization and Its Discontents. Ideally, this is true, but it often seems like some civilizations ...

Human beings are prone to perversion. I don't mean sexual perversion, though that is sometimes a part of it. I'm talking about our broader tendency toward confusion about how to be happy. We seem to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. People left their jobs in record numbers in 2021. More than 20 million U.S. workers quit ...

BISMARCK -- The owner of the Discontent chain of skateboard stores, which once included locations in Bismarck, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., could receive up to 30 years in prison after a South Central ...

Protests triggered by soaring inflation and a collapsing currency have highlighted widespread political discontent. Analysts ...