Professors Shore, Snyder and Stanley have studied and written extensively on authoritarianism. Ms. Trianni is a producer for ...

Music, for instance, can offer a real sense of peace, he added. So can visual art. Dr. Keltner recently tried a New York Times focus challenge, spending 10 minutes looking at van Gogh’s “Starry Night, ...

Beijing is trying to win over other countries with vows of economic cooperation. But it won’t back down from its territorial ...