Welcome to a new ‘gloomcycle’ of news. Here’s how to stop compulsive scrolling | Margaret Sullivan

As Americans, we need to know what's happening so we can act. But that doesn't mean constant online immersion

The threat of a world war. Political assassinations. Federal raids on unsuspecting migrants.

There seems to be no end to terrifying news these days. In fact, it comes at us so unceasingly that numbness can set in. Or even depression or melancholy, like a black cloud over every part of our lives.