How parents can have empathy for the classroom environment” This isn’t a call for empathy for teachers. That would be lovely, and I won’t turn that gift away, but I’m asking parents to have more empathy and protective instinct f…

Having the ability to empathize with another person seems to be a good thing, even a morally good thing. If asked to choose between two worlds distinguished only in respect to the existence of empathy among humans, most of us would probably choose…

President Obama has something on his mind — a message he plans to deliver in Minneapolis Thursday and Friday.Obama, who wants to get out of Washington and hover over domestic economic themes, if he can, has a summer of outreach in mind. The White Hous…

“A lot of times people when they are reluctant to open up with another person, they’ll open up when an animal is there,” Taravella said. “It makes them feel more relaxed, more calm and just more willing to share.”It happened today with spec…