When a person goes through a traumatic experience, they often find themselves thinking that what happened could have been ...

It took you three weeks to gather the nerve to ask your boss for a raise–and three seconds for her to respond with a firm "no." For days afterwards you ponder what went wrong: "If only I had been more ...

Last weekend, we hosted a large party to celebrate a big family birthday. Ever the optimists, we assumed that spring weather would be on our side. We invited 60 guests to join outdoor celebrations in ...

Have you ever been in that meeting where things goes awry and you immediately feel your stomach tie up in knots? You can tell something is wrong–maybe what you said or didn’t say, or did or didn’t do.

In a way, it seems like there's no point wondering what could have been — if you hadn't screwed up that job interview, if you'd worked up the nerve to text that girl, if you'd trusted your gut a ...

What if the great events in history had turned out differently? How would the world today be changed? Niall Ferguson wonders about this a lot. He's a well-known economic historian at Harvard, and a ...