MOST ECONOMIC theories come and go with little fanfare. Every once in a while, however, one catches fire. In 2015 Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two Princeton University economists, published a landmark ...

Long before opioids flooded communities, something else was quietly changing—and it may have helped set the stage for today’s crisis. A new study finds that as church attendance dropped among ...

“The thought of suicide,” Nietzsche quips, “is a powerful comfort: it helps one through many a dreadful night.” Taking one’s own life is, of course, no laughing matter, and few, if any, of us can say ...

Roughly 110,000 Americans died from a drug overdose between February 2021 and February 2022. That figure is part of a larger troubling trend. Overall life expectancy in the U.S. fell in 2020 and again ...