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An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.

An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.


A barrage of products promise you can get your hair — and self-esteem — back.


From space exploration to taxidermy, here’s what Gen Alpha kids want to do when they grow up.


The search giant’s midlife crisis is now your problem.
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Americans are losing faith in their friends and neighbors. Here’s how to reverse course.


How to get parents and friends to get serious about doing good.


Young adults from around the world are struggling.


Don’t blame Joe Rogan too much — one theory says that the roots of this gender gap go back decades.


How women took over literary fiction.

How to contend with an onslaught of guidance in an uncertain, lonely world.


One of the GOP justices must have defected in a case about religious schools, but the Court didn’t reveal who it was.


What wouldn’t Jesus do?


Now is a good time to think about tech training wheels.


Libby v. Fecteau is an awful case about an anti-trans lawmaker who nonetheless needed to win.

The competing visions for good child care, explained.


No one cares as much as you do.


Why are we mad at the football coach’s girlfriend?


Gen Z men are becoming more religious. The women, not so much.




Hearing aids are cool now.


What if we measured success in terms of how much good we do?


How to navigate finding family in an age of at-home DNA testing.


How to live longer — and healthier.


Don’t let polarization distract you from one of the most important issues the world faces.


His views on immigration may point to an early clash with the Trump administration.


Who is the new pope? What will the new pope do? And other questions, answered.


Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — is not your typical boomer Chicago Catholic.


American politics has poisoned how we think about the pope.


A bright spot in American family life.


Like it or not, the billionaire gets to decide how half the world uses technology.


Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.


To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.


Two cast members of the hit Netflix reality TV show on what the HHS secretary misunderstands about autism.


Here’s why your potentially romantic meetup actually sucks.


Nothing will cure you of perfectionism faster than trying to grow living things.


Pro-natalists want America having more babies — but only one of their proposals helps actual children.


Candace Owens and Joe Rogan are the latest frontier of the Me Too backlash.


The Court’s Christian right makeover of the Constitution enters its endgame.


Advice author Lysa TerKeurst has a devoted audience, a dozen bestselling books — and she’s divorced.


The loving, aggravating, inescapable relationship that lasts a lifetime.

