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Given the Court’s Republican supermajority, this case is unlikely to end well for trans people.

Americans are confronting a whole new reality of patchwork abortion access after the Dobbs decision.


More Americans feel comfortable coming out. That doesn’t mean they’re all progressives.


Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.


In her new novel All Fours, Miranda July romps where The Idea of You fears to tread.


The troubling corporate pullback on Pride Month, briefly explained.


If you want to get away together, but you don’t want to fight, here’s what you need to know.


Churches, mosques, and temples could change the game on affordable housing.


Advocating for yourself might not be as awkward as you think.


The French: They’re just like us.

Getting even can feel thrilling, but it’s worth weighing the cost.


Talking with the psychologists who brought the real science of emotion to the Pixar film.


Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.


They span nearly half a century and paint a picture of a serial predator.


History suggests LGBTQ voters and Biden are headed for a breakup. But there’s much more at play here.


Are you destined to always be the “eldest daughter”?


Bottom line: Wearing it is still good advice.


It’s not how you start investing — it’s why.


A Q&A with Jonathan Haidt on smartphones, kids today, and what the skeptics get wrong about his argument.

Mindfulness is one thing. Jhāna meditation is stranger, stronger, and going mainstream.


The preschool teacher-turned-content creator is an advocate for all families. Conservatives are mad about it.


My friend wrote a book about friendship. Here’s what we learned about ours.
The case for why we should all be carrying naloxone.



The commodification of an activist concept turned a revitalizing practice into an isolating one.


A practical guide to navigating a fractured support system.


“The trans women, the women with husbands, divorced women ... They can compete but they cannot win.”


All is not lost if they are dating a complete loser.


Thanks to an opinion by Sam Alito, rigged maps now enjoy the Supreme Court’s unambiguous support.

Dopamine detoxing, hacking, and fasting: Is any of it real?


Lawmakers in Minnesota want to cap out-of-pocket child care costs.


Maybe you actually smell fine.


Ozempic has become hugely popular. Researchers are racing to learn more about what it does to us.


With bird flu affecting multiple dairy farms, unpasteurized products are more dangerous than ever — but some people are reluctant to heed government guidance.
If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?


A separation of church and church.


We don’t need apocalyptic economic predictions to advocate for better family policy.


Multiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana’s illegal racial gerrymander.