‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic

W hen Lani Ritter Hall’s beloved husband of more than 40 years, Gus, died in 2022, she felt a bit unmoored. Taking care of him had been the thing that got her out of bed in the morning, and with him gone, the 76-year-old felt she’d lost her purpose. In the context of a society so fractured that for...

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