There are two traps Catholics can fall into at election time. Discouragement had the upper hand before the election. That was when Catholics were busy trading information about the records of the two ...

H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Hello, New York City. On Tuesday, a handful of states held off-year ...

On the reality show Bachelor in Paradise contestant Ashley I. has become known for loving her good friend Jared H., whom she has pursued (mostly) unsuccessfully for two seasons, never giving up hope ...

Everyone indulges in wishful thinking now and again. But when is that most likely to happen and when could it actually be harmful? A new study demonstrates unequivocally that the greater the ...

Anyone reading Kamala Harris’s “107 Days” will ask why the former vice president wrote this book. Its title refers to the number of days she was given by President Joe Biden to launch and win “the ...

A recently released documentary film produced by murdered opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anticorruption Foundation is making waves among Russians. Titled “The Traitors,” the film tries to figure ...

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Wishful thinking is one of our besetting sins.” “We’re creating our own reality,” Trump (the prevaricator-in-chief) and his minions claim when they say something that is ...

Social Scientists traditionally regard people's beliefs about the future to be exogenous to their desires and wishes. It's one thing to want something to happen, but it doesn't suppose to affect our ...