This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: After days of uncertainty, the Trump administration will keep food assistance flowing — but only for part of the month.  What’s happening? Funding for the […]

The big Donald Trump foreign policy question heading into this week looked like it was going to be when and if the US was going to launch military strikes against Venezuela. That’s still a live question, but in the meantime, the president has threatened to attack an entirely different country on the other side of […]

In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. “It seemed to me that I’d entered another universe or I’d gone crazy or something…the world had just turned upside down!” Deutsch recalls. Deutsch had stumbled across an illusion in audio form — she called it the “Octave Illusion” […]

One in three Americans resolved to make 2025 the year they get therapy. If you were one of them, you may have discovered: Figuring out how to get your insurance benefits to cover therapy can take some legwork.  The drudgery of figuring out whether and how your insurance plan covers therapy — or choosing between […]

The thing about dental insurance is that it isn’t really insurance — it’s more like a half-helpful discount plan with a maximum. And once you reach the maximum, you’re on your own, often to the tune of hundreds and thousands of dollars. As though going to the dentist needed to be less fun. In the […]