Instead, I did the smart thing and let it sit there for a few days. Clear-eyed and less livid, I went back to the email and ...

The Trump administration has dismissed public pleas for mercy for transgender youth and instead launched a full-scale attack ...

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with the state of Oklahoma and blocked the opening of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic ...

The bottom line is that this is her kid, so it’s her rules. Unless the rules pose an undue burden on you, I think you’re ...

My husband “Kurt’s” 70-year-old mother, “Pearl,” moved in with us shortly after her husband passed away last year. Over the past several months I have noticed her growing increasingly forgetful. She ...

On this day in 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins, a former flight instructor and test pilot, becomes the first woman to pilot ...

Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is frighteningly new.

Now my son is grown and he is a wonderful person. I’m married, and we have been successful enough that I’m about to step back from my career to pursue some personal projects. Val never married and ...

Ever since I first played Elizabeth Hargrave’s revolutionary board game Wingspan, I’ve been wondering: What comes next? When I profiled Hargrave in 2021, she told me she was batting around several ...

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Whatever its motivations, the 5th Circuit’s opinion has little to do with the reality of gun violence with which all ...