Among the most disappointing aspects of watching democracies slowly commit suicide and become autocracies is the complicity of the general population who choose, by their conduct, to themselves become ...

Florida’s 2026 decision to reduce funding for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program for medications that keep people with AIDS from transmitting the HIV virus to others, is surely a form of bureaucratic ...

Your mind can be both your fiercest ally and your toughest opponent. Research uncovers what negative self-talk might really be doing for you, and how to work with it. Have you ever noticed a voice in ...

Self-destructive people do not always wear signs that they’re struggling. But by using your own experience, intuition, and common sense, you can look for significant clues that they are. The challenge ...

Most people, after suffering consequences for a bad decision, will alter their future behavior to avoid a similar negative outcome. That’s just common sense. But many social circles have that one ...

On Sunday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison published a detailed analysis of Anthropic’s newly released system prompts for Claude 4’s Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models, offering insights into how ...

Mental health experts reveal hidden patterns that damage emotional well-being and hinder happiness. The phenomenon of emotional self-sabotage affects millions of Americans, yet many remain unaware ...

Years ago at a forgiveness class for Stanford Continuing Studies, one of us met a man who once had a wife and two children and a good job. But he threw it all away because of a gambling addiction that ...

Why do people engage in compulsive, self-defeating patterns despite the obvious negative consequences? Popular opinion is that they lack willpower, grit, moral fiber, or coping tools. In many cases, ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

"She is in a self-destructive approach that I can’t interfere in, and I really don’t understand why she’s continuing," the director told Deadline. Audiard in an interview with Deadline said not only ...