Coming out of last week's Democratic National Convention, the word on the lips of many of the party's politicians was "joy" — a word heard over and over from speakers at the event. But does that joy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Tim Walz, shown at a Wisconsin rally, has extended his meme-making role by bringing a decidedly lighter tone to the race ...

In the month since President Joe Biden suspended his reelection campaign, November’s election has become a battle of two warring emotions: that of joy, and that of anger. That’s become particularly ...

When people speak of “joy” they can mean a variety of things. They might refer to an emotion or a sensation (pleasure) or behaviors (engaging in pleasant activities) or moods (happiness) or ...

Shortly after 6 p.m. last Thursday, applause and a few yelps slipped past the closed doors of the Harborside Ballroom on the third floor of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. Inside, several hundred ...

The allegiances of this group of voters — roughly three million people in seven battleground states — are up for grabs, and polling shows they’re pessimistic about the country’s future. By Jonathan ...

Dozens of people with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol gathered outside the detention facility in Washington to celebrate Trump’s pardons of those convicted of crimes that day. By ...

On Iris DeMent’s 1996 album, The Way I Should, there’s a track titled “Wasteland of the Free,” where she sings about uniquely tragic American hypocrisies that have only gotten more inane and ...

The campaign for the presidency overflowed for months with dark ruminations about the furies to be unleashed should the other side win: World War III, another Great Depression and even the possible ...