When thinking about how politics and news events impact our mental health, we frequently focus on negative impacts: coverage about police shootings, disasters, and violent terrorist attacks have been ...

A few minutes ago, as I was looking across I-25 toward Invesco Field at Mile High, an e-mail popped up from the man who’d given such a stirring speech at that stadium in August 2008: Barack Obama. But ...

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