Nobody tells you how expensive breaking up is. (Or maybe they did and I didn’t want to hear it.) Overnight, your expenses soar, your safety net vanishes, your financial goals shift from long-term dreams into short-term survival. You might need to pack up and move unexpectedly, purchase furniture you didn’t budget for. Your dollars went […]

The landmark speech given by French President Emmanuel Macron last week — with a nuclear submarine serving as a dramatic backdrop — announcing the expansion of France’s nuclear arsenal, didn’t get that much attention in the United States. That’s understandable: There’s a lot going on in the news, not least of which is the ongoing […]

If you’ve been taking antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications for years, you might have certain questions. Do you still need the medication? How would you know if you didn’t? Does it make sense to stay on it indefinitely, or do you owe it to yourself to see what life would be like without the medication? I […]

When America’s Next Top Model premiered in 2002, it was a juggernaut. The show was a part of a cohort of programming that built the foundations of reality television as we know it today. A new documentary, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, asks the show’s creator, Tyra Banks, her collaborators, and former contestants […]

We’ve painted ourselves into a corner on climate change — our planet is going to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. And while greenhouse gas emissions aren’t rising as fast as they used to, we’re still emitting carbon dioxide at record-high levels, so further warming is inevitable. Stopping Earth from heating up further demands effectively […]