Robert D. Putnam, the Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, and author of "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis," speaks with a reporter following an event hosted by The Boston ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By PETER SMITH, Associated Press It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon. By any name, it refers to ...

In his 2000 book “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” political scientist Robert Putnam writes that, “American history carefully examined is a story of ups and downs in ...

In 2000, Robert Putnam observed something peculiar. More Americans than ever were bowling. But fewer people were bowling in group leagues. It was a simple observation. Our desire to go bowling alone ...

In an address on youth well-being, political scientist Robert Putnam, whose prescient 2000 book Bowling Alone predicted a quarter-century-long decline in American community, laid out a sweeping ...