Schadenfreude seems to permeate American politics these days as viral clips and memes of politicians making real or AI-generated gaffes and off-color remarks are gleefully shared by ideological foes.

Schadenfreude, a word borrowed from German (translation: harm joy), is the deliciously evil feeling of deriving happiness, however small and petty, from someone else’s misfortune. If you’ve ever ...

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While working on this review of Tiffany Watt Smith’s lively little book about the “ethically ambiguous” emotion of schadenfreude — taking pleasure in the humiliations and failures of other people — a ...

Schadenfreude—loosely translated as taking covert pleasure in the discomfort of others—is a complex concept. It is the kind of feeling you get when you see, for example, your manager’s nephew, who ...

Open schadenfreude has been a common, perhaps prevailing response to the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the company often criticized for delaying and denying necessary medical ...

A case in point: A few months after I was a fired by a boss whom I disliked, I learned that he had been fired. Schadenfreude! I felt the same way when I read a negative review of a book by a French ...

Sometimes it makes us happy when others have a little mishap — and that's okay! Schadenfreude, or the malicious joy we feel at another person's pain, is not as bad as you might think. Schadenfreude is ...

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