America is in its pessimism era, and Trump is playing on it, argues the columnist David Brooks in this episode of The ...

How many times have you been told that something great will happen as long as you believe it is possible? From pop psychology books to self-improvement seminars and blogs, there’s a lot of hype ...

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”—Winston Churchill Some of us see the world as a glass half empty and others a glass half ...

This idea is greatly reflected in the comics of Optipess, which has it built in the title that optimism and pessimism can coexist. Originally, Optipess was created by a Norwegian artist, Kristian ...

America is supposed to be a nation of optimists. Founded and then continually joined by people who made great efforts and took enormous risks to come here from other places, the country's economic and ...

"Oh, there's plenty of hope," the novelist Franz Kafka once responded to a question about the future. "An infinite amount of hope — but not for us." That conversation took place in 1920. A century on, ...

Americans have an international reputation for optimism, and in the land of sunny dispositions, entrepreneurs are the top of the heap in terms of their hopeful outlook. I mean, how else could you face ...

The first season of HBO’s True Detective stars Matthew McConaughey as a lithe, taciturn detective named Rust Cohle. In the series premiere, Cohle is asked by his partner (played by Woody Harrelson) ...

Apocalyptic economic visions of bread lines, riots are drawing eyeballs online. April 9, 2009— -- People are logging onto the Internet to read all sorts of dire economic predictions: a new Great ...

Dallas Fed Q4 energy survey shows oil and gas activity down, hiring contracting, and 2026 capex flat to lower amid price ...