The Life is Good Playmaker Project, a nonprofit that has trained nearly 30,000 early childhood educators, social workers, and caregivers in the simple yet profound art of using play to heal trauma ...

It may not be happy or fulfilling, but it can still be a good life. We all want to experience a "good life." Though we may have different definitions of what this means, it generally includes building ...

You have everything you thought you wanted – a good job, loving relationships, financial security, and reasonable health – yet somehow you still feel unsatisfied, anxious, or vaguely unhappy without ...

I n his twenties, the comedian, director, and actor Mike Birbiglia learned to play the guitar because of its theatrical simplicity. “I always admired people who could walk into a bar and just… that’s ...

But what a good life looks like and how to create it have been existential questions pondered for millennia by philosophers, some of whom have offered abstract or difficult-to-obtain perspectives on ...

As a teenager, I spent a summer abroad living with a French family as part of a foreign exchange program. None of my French family spoke English, and it wasn’t always easy to communicate or understand ...

This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. At the beginning of the year, I always like to do a couple of episodes on things ...