In a strange historical coincidence, two huge political events in the U.S. and Germany have happened almost simultaneously. On the same day that Donald Trump’s victory was confirmed, the self-declared ...

English has many words for the feelings that can arise when a good, hard look at the state of the world seems to reveal only negatives. Hopelessness, despair ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate change catastrophes, thousands of civilians killed in wars and obnoxious world leaders - a glance at your phone can be ...

Weltschmerz is the German expression for "World Pain" Source: Photo courtesy of Greg Rakozy (Unsplash) A patient of mine who happens to be a historian stated something mundanely eloquent this past ...

Want to win at English? Learn German. That’s the unexpected message of the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals. America’s new national champion, Katharine Close, won by spelling Ursprache. The ...

Lockdown fatigue, general despair, furious rage and total helplessness; all part of a regular hour during the biggest test of global patience we’ve ever lived through. As we push on to month three (!) ...

Kalpana Nair is a Certified Life Coach from the Life Coach Training Institute from San Diego, USA. She is also an MBA in Marketing, from ITM, Mumbai, India and has a BSc degree from Chatham College, ...

It's often said that opposites define each other. If there were no night, what would day be? What would it even mean? And so it is with happiness. One might say we only really live and fully ...

Angst is the word for fear in German, Dutch, and Danish. It comes from the same Indo-European root (meaning “tight, constricted, painful”) that gave us anguish, anxiety, and anger. In the mid-19th ...