Opinion

Finding New Optimism In Those Pandemic Babies

And the calculus of when to have kids.

Here's the One 2021 Resolution I Want To Keep

And why it's way too easy to go back to our old, not so happy habits

When the Music Stops: An Actor on What She Learned About Self-Worth After a Year Without Applause

'I was completely burned out by the constant need to prove myself,' says Dear Evan Hansen star Ciara Elyse Harris of her pre-pandemic life.

Depression Is a Pandemic. Let's Use the Lessons of COVID-19 to Find Treatments

The recent spike in depression and anxiety is another reason we need a mental health moonshot now

The Brain-Boosting Joy of Seeing Art Live With Other Humans for the First Time in Two Years

And the science of why seeing artworks in person affects your mind differently than 2D viewing

How Trees Mother Their Seedlings and What We Can Learn About Connection From Forests

And the networks of communication and support we rely on

I'm Awash In Pandemic-Fueled Gratitude and Taking a Solitary Cross-Country Road Trip

But I'll be driving through a nation trapped in a devastating cycle of grief and protest over gun violence

Before You Have That Bonfire of the Stretchy Pants, Consider Some Pandemic Wardrobe Habits You Should Keep

And other lessons we should all take with us

I Found a Rainbow At the End of My Hunt For a Vaccine Appointment

And why we attach mystical meaning to random sightings.

Is U.S. Immigration Reform Possible?

The bills would provide a pathway to citizenship for millions, including DREAMers

What We Learned About Ourselves In the First Year of the Pandemic

And why March may be our psychological turning point

A Love Letter For All the Days After Valentine's Day

Giving ordinary love its beautiful due

The Strange Allure of a Flight to Nowhere (and Other Places We're Desperate to Go)

And why travel matters

The Irreplaceable Grace Of an Ordinary Morning

And why we need to say the names of those lost to COVID

Dems Already Looking Ahead to 2022

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Connie Schultz On Finding Room for Kindness on Twitter

And the art of being present.

Thanksgiving Travel Guilt and Other Tales of the Pandemic

And going home for the holidays in a pandemic year.

A Fond Farewell to Trump's NASA Administrator

Bridenstine leaves with a track record of success

And the power of example

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Why the Coronavirus Outbreak Could Hit Women Hardest

At 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, I got a text message saying my children’s school in D.C. would close the next day for a deep cleaning. I'm a single mom and am lucky to have caregiving...

Angelina Jolie Interviews One of the Drafters of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children: ‘Children Need to Know Their Rights’

When the Charter of the U.N. was signed in San Francisco in June 1945, it promised equal rights for all, but made no specific mention of children. Thirty years ago, the U.N. Convention on the...

Actor Joe Regalbuto writes about his experience of being #36 in the 1969 lottery

Why the Red Carpet Is Important in the #MeToo Era

It seems so painfully obvious now, in the #MeToo era, that to ask a woman only about what she’s wearing, and then to turn to the man next to her and ask him nothing about...

To Solve My Social Anxiety, I Had to Confront Why I Became a Writer In the First Place

Surprisingly, a lot of reporters have social anxiety. Although it's actually not all that surprising when you consider how nerdy and awkward all the kids were at your high school newspaper. And how those who...

On Leaders

The work of journalism has always meant coping with a certain amount of despair, but the past few weeks have been particularly unrelenting. From the shooting in Las Vegas and the hurricanes in Puerto Rico...

FEMA Chief Slammed For Puerto Rico Relief Comments

Many pointed to logistically complex feats like the Berlin Airlift or the Moon landings

The NFL Should Thank Trump for Finally Shaking Up Monday Night Football

The controversy has given a league beset by more serious problems a fresh story

Stop Calling Google's Chromebooks Toy Computers

Google's budget laptops have grown up to become tools

These iPhone 8 Features Could Transform Your Smartphone

Apple's next iPhone could finally make these technologies mainstream

Why Social Media Users Should Never Lower Their Guard

Never automatically accept a friend request from anyone

We Need the Liberal Arts in Technology's Age of Distraction

More anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers in tech, please

It's Time to Send Selina Meyer In to Deal With the GOP Lawmakers

Do you know what we should do the next time a clutch of male Republican Senators decide it’s ok to go behind closed doors and rewrite the entire country’s health care plan without a single...

How The iPhone Changed 5 Major Industries

A look back on the eve of its 10th anniversary

'On the Last Day of High School, I Almost Died. CPR Saved My Life.'

When the heart stops for any reason, a new kind of first aid means the difference between life and death

Silicon Valley Needs to Rewrite Its Hero-Founder Myth

That's the lesson in Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's stunning fall

Whose Privilege Is Showing? Probably Mine. But Don't Ask Me to Check Anyone Else

When I was 16, I worked in the nursing home a few miles from my house. It sat without irony right next to a funeral parlor. There was just a driveway between the two buildings,...