Many years ago, when I asked 11-year-old Michael, a boy I was working with in therapy, what a good day looked like for him, his answer stopped me: “A good day is when bad things don’t happen ...

A new study examines different ways of coping with stress to see what makes us feel better when we're struggling.

Bad data becomes the raw material for good outcomes. There is, of course, still work to do. Matching and reconciling data across distributed systems remains a real challenge.

Bad things happening to good people isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s the system. It’s the raw, untamed nature of existence that’s beyond the moralistic rules we’ve set up.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. For thousands of years, people have waited on karma to catch up with their good behavior—or promised ...