It had been a long week, and Tonna Obaze really wanted to hang out with her friend Bria. But she also didn’t want to get off the couch. A logical solution emerged: a sleepover. They both worked late that Friday night — Obaze, 28, is the founder of a consulting firm — and Bria arrived […]

The carnage in the Sudanese city of El Fasher has become so severe that the blood stains can be seen from space.  The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — which attacked the capital of Khartoum two years ago, kicking off a brutal civil war — finally took over El Fasher last week. The RSF’s capture […]

It’s that time of year again: open enrollment. With it comes a lot of questions: Do I go with an HMO or a PPO? Do I need an FSA or an HSA? What’s my deductible again?  It’s very confusing, but one thing is clear: The cost of your health insurance is likely going up. Premiums […]

The longest government shutdown in modern American history is about to end, after a handful of Democratic senators this weekend decided to provide Republicans enough votes to pass a short-term funding plan that would keep the government running until the end of January 2026. While there’s not much for Democrats to write home about in […]

On a cloudless morning in September, sunlight poured through the canopy of a banyan tree near the banks of the Onilahy River, which runs from southwest Madagascar to the Indian Ocean. The tree grew on the edge of a small karst cliff. Its roots spilled over the side like melting candle wax.  I scrambled up […]