Psychiatry has transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorders due to the uncertainty of the true workings of the brain.

Europe's banks and entire monetary system are in crisis from the sovereign debt of financially weak governments.  But the capital requirement for banks to hold such Euro denominated debt was zero.  It was defined as "risk free," but has instead led to massive losses.

Senator Ted Kennedy knew and expressed the sorrow of human life.

On average, religious people are much happier than others.

I am glad I was able to bePope John Paul II's funeraland, when no one was looking, to blow him a final kiss as he disappeared into St. Peter's, out of sight.

Gary Wills is now inclined to sigh, more in sorrow than in anger, and announce that efforts to create a Christian Left are irredeemably flawed.

The debate among Republicans is whether to go after downscale or upscale voters.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as the DPRK, and North Korea) is a special case in the annals of modern economic development, and not a good one: for it is an economy that once achieved a relatively advanced level of modernization, but then proceeded into prolonged, even catastrophic decline.