At six foot eight, Sen. John Fetterman is still a formidable man, despite two serious assaults on his health in less than a year: he suffered a stroke last May, and after a private struggle for years, ...

A self-led, practitioner-supported form of mindfulness therapy was more effective and more cost-effective than self-help cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT-SH), results from a head-to-head study show.

One of the most enduring myths of American history is that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire advocate who “did nothing” while the US economy slid into ...

PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fears of a new Great Depression, all too real after Lehman Brothers collapsed a year ago, have abated as the global economy emerges from the depths of recession with the ...

See the Great Depression in Indy, the end of Prohibition and more through the eyes of our photographers of the 1930s.

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...

The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 757-784 (28 pages) This paper examines the role of aggregate-demand stimulus in ending the Great Depression. Plausible estimates of ...