When I was laid off from my role as an editor for a magazine in late 2024, logically, I knew what I was supposed to think: Don’t tie your self-worth to a job. After all, it’s just a job.  While I did my best to believe that optimistic mantra, most days — and especially on […]

War is nothing new for America — but the way Pete Hegseth talks about it is. President Donald Trump’s secretary of defense often styles the US’s actions in Iran as being blessed by God. As being holy. He likened the recovery of a downed Air Force member in Iran on Easter Sunday to the resurrection […]

Check your pocket. You’re probably carrying a tracking device that will allow the police — or even the Trump administration — to track every move that you make. If you use a cellphone, you are unavoidably revealing your location all the time. Cellphones typically receive service by connecting to a nearby communications tower or other […]

The politics of Israel have shifted inside the Democratic Party — and staunch defenders of the Jewish nation are growing scarcer and scarcer.  On Wednesday, 40 out of 47 Democratic senators voted to block a military sale to Israel — far higher opposition than had been previously seen on any similar measure. It was the […]

The idea that you need to save up a certain amount of money before having kids is so common it can feel almost like a moral law.  But it isn’t, and I said as much recently when a reader wrote in to my advice column asking if she’s too poor to have a baby. I […]