The American Well-Being Project

Twin sisters Araneidis Sanchez, 7, (L), and Araneisi Sanchez, pose for a picture during the International Livestock Fair Show in Havana. Around 200 thousand people attend the fair, according to its organisers. Picture taken on March 21, 2015. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini - GF10000039634

If we are doing so well, why do we feel so bad?

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

A man walks on a street between buildings at a business district in Tokyo, Japan, November 19, 2015. The Bank of Japan maintained its current pace of monetary stimulus on Thursday, clinging to hopes that an economic recovery is in sight despite soft domestic capital expenditure and challenging global business conditions. REUTERS/Yuya Shino - GF20000065409

American optimism, longevity, and the role of lost hope in deaths of despair

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Dr. Bryon Harbolt examines patient Barbara Kilgore in his Cathedral Canyon Clinic where he has been seeing her since 1984 in Altamont, Tennessee July 14, 2013. Harbolt, 89, who charges as little as $15 for an office visit, sees patients six days a week in the rural clinic he opened in 1960. Photo taken July 14, 2013. REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - TB3E97F1CTGDW

Longer, more optimistic, lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Police in riot gear and a protester stand near a burned U.S. flag after the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. September 17, 2017. Picture taken September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant - RC17ECB258C0

Helping close divisions in the US: Insights from the American Well-Being Project

Carol Graham, Edward Lawlor, and Joshua Miller

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

A syringe filled a narcotic, an empty syringe and a spoon sit on the roof of a car, where a man in his 20's overdosed on opioids in Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., August 14, 2017. Picture taken August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1257D38130

Premature mortality and the long decline of hope in America

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Anita Monk and her neighbour John Everett dance during a Christmas Dinner event for older people at Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall in London, Britain December 25, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs - RC18585124A0

Longer, more optimistic lives: Historic optimism and life expectancy in the United States

Kelsey J. O’Connor and Carol Graham

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

A white nationalist carries the Confederate flag as he arrives for a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC14FA787A00

Record expansion of US hate groups slows under Trump administration

Monday, February 5, 2018

Cora Gates, 68, a grandmother, poses for a portrait outside her family home in Ferguson, Missouri July 23, 2015. When asked how Michael Brown's death affected her life, Gates said, "It didn't affect my life at all. I still sit on the porch like normal. I heard the guns but I didn't do nothing so I don't have to be afraid of nobody." When asked what changes she has seen in her community over the past year, Gates said, "I don't get out of the house much so I cannot say." On August 9, 2014 a white police officer shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown dead in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri. A year later Reuters photographer Adrees Latif returned to Ferguson, where he has documented events in the past year, to capture the portraits of local residents and canvass their views. REUTERS/Adrees Latif PICTURE 5 OF 13 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "PORTRAITS OF FERGUSON"SEARCH "LATIF PORTRAITS" FOR ALL PICTURES - GF20000014304

Why are black poor Americans more optimistic than white ones?

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

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Fight opioids with lessons learned from Ebola, HIV crises

Anthony F. Pipa

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

A person receives a test for diabetes during Care Harbor LA free medical clinic in Los Angeles

Next Steps: Eliminating Disparities in Diabetes and Obesity

Debra L. Haire-Joshu

May 7, 2015