When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a similarly fast resolution seemed possible.

President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the many actions he has taken in just the first few weeks of his second White House term.

This is the type of question some adults are asking themselves as they struggle through the darkness of losing a job to the pandemic. That might be because sudden unemployment is a threat to "narrative identity," said Jonathan Adler, a professor of psychology who specializes in identity and narrative psychology at the Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. That narrative identity is the confluence of you and the culture in which you live. It's sort of a classic American master narrative," Adler said. "Changing your narrative identity is like that — it's a cumulative process that builds up over time, but the intention ... is something you do in the here and now every day."