A lot of leaders are big-picture people who don’t sweat the details. Donald Trump takes the approach to the extreme: He hates ...

Earlier this year, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expelled transgender troops from the U.S. military, the administration claimed—against all evidence—that bigotry against ...

In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same ...

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My girlfriend’s ex was judgmental and weird, specifically about one part of her body.

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My wife “Kim” and I have an 8-year-old daughter, “Anna,” and a younger son. Recently, Kim was promoted at work and received a pen plated with 24-karat gold as a gift from her office. Anna thought the ...

Last Friday, the A.I. lab Anthropic announced in a blog post that it has given its chatbot Claude the right to walk away from conversations when it feels “distress.” ...

In the age of A.I. paranoia, people are cutting em dashes, skipping metaphors, and leaving in typos to show their human.

Dear Prudence, I missed my daughter’s wedding due to a medical emergency. I had to have an immediate surgery tha ...

My husband has been very generous to his sons: He paid for college, new cars, and large gifts for down payments. Even before ...