To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.

They’ve become an important way to spend time with peers. But they’ve also become more addictive.

There are few higher and better callings than to forge a bond with a person and provide a place where they belong.

The answer, only now coming into view, explains why that awful year still has us in its grip.

A cancer diagnosis, a Swedish proverb and the blessing of human connection

Sondheim has been canonized, with revivals and revues everywhere. It’s a development he might have greeted with deep ambivalence.

Britain’s minister for loneliness offers a model of how to knit together a lonely crowd.