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[ad_1] The happiness curve is collapsing. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when …

[ad_1] Photographs by Damon Winter Introduction by David French Mr. Winter is a staff photographer currently on assignment for Opinion. Mr. French is an Opinion Columnist. What do you see …

[ad_1] My father, Lee Kuan Yew, was the founder of Singapore. He guided the nation through its first 31 years with a firm hand as prime minister, pioneering a system …

[ad_1] I first met Dane Chapin, a San Diego-area entrepreneur, in 2012, when he gave me a ride in his Prius and told me I was dead wrong about climate …

[ad_1] The first reaction to the results of the Canadian elections around the world, including in Canada itself, was that the Canadians had defeated Donald Trump. It was hard to …

[ad_1] April 16, 2025, 2:44 p.m. ET On Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, two spring car crashes, about a quarter-century apart, have exacted a death toll of five pedestrians. Nearly 24 years …

[ad_1] To the Editor: Re “Trump Is Going Too Far in Amassing His Power, Most Voters in Poll Say” (front page, April 26): The New York Times/Siena College poll on …

[ad_1] It is a wild thing to release a book into the world. “Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, has been out for a month and a half. …

[ad_1] Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate …

[ad_1] Give me a single word to describe life in the United States of America. Give me a single wordto describe life in theUnited States of America. “Unstable.” Jessica, 37, …