John McWhorter thinks he has hit upon the reason so many blacks continue to respond to today’s America with an alienation that is “disconnected from current reality.” Why is it that earlier ...

Aging, an inescapable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, initially grounded in Marxist theory, ...

A sexual assault survivor mentions feeling disconnected from people with whom she once felt close. Another explains that he feels like a stranger to himself. In interview after interview with my ...

The concept of parental alienation was first put forth by Dr. Richard Gardner in 1985. Parental alienation primarily occurs during a high-conflict divorce in which the child identifies strongly with ...

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From Davis v. Davis, decided yesterday by the Mississippi Supreme Court, in an opinion for the court by Justice Leslie King: John and Sandra Davis, a then-married couple, had two children in the 1980s ...

Back in 2020, the pandemic nucleated an unemployment rate that hadn’t been seen since 1948, from 3.5% in February to a grim 14.8% in April. Zooming in on one of the hardest-hit sectors, the tech ...