In 2024, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring loneliness a public health epidemic. He wasn't exaggerating. The data shows social isolation is as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By PETER SMITH, Associated Press It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon. By any name, it refers to ...

Leading a company can sometimes be a lonely proposition — you have to remain a little dispassionate, a little bit apart, and make decisions that affect your staff, choices only you can make. But a new ...

In a sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live, the cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who threw a successful dinner party. As he basked in the company of his friends, he ...

If you've felt a pang of loneliness lately, you might not be the only one. Americans are reportedly lonelier compared to years past. According to a newly released survey from AARP, adults aged 45 and ...

More U.S. adults ages 45 and older are feeling lonely, according to an AARP study. The survey, published Wednesday, found that 40 percent of respondents said they felt lonely. In 2010 and 2018, 35 ...

The holidays are often called “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many people, they can feel like the opposite. The music, parties, and family gatherings can make loneliness hit even harder ...

The college years once ranked among the happiest times of most people’s lives, but that’s changed. Young adults face an escalating mental health crisis, fueled in part by loneliness. In 2023, 19% of ...

Is Sam Altman trying to get men addicted to erotic chatbots in order to make money off them? That’s the strong implication of a recent New York Times op-ed by artificial intelligence researcher Steven ...

Search the internet for “male loneliness” and you’ll find articles both parsing this so-called epidemic and others challenging its existence. Regardless of gender, I suspect most people are lonely ...

Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. I am remembering now the Sunday afternoons of my 1960s childhood, after my ...

It took Kiran Desai nearly 20 years to write her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. I mean this as a sincere tribute when I say I'm amazed it only took her that long. Desai's near 700-page ...