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An activist navigating motherhood for the first time reflects on the complexity of reconciling these two kinds of caregiving ...

AI could satisfy our deeply held desire to talk to other creatures. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits ...

In this layered portrait of life on the streets of Los Angeles, strife is interlaced with moments of joy and solidarity ...

The charming short I’m Doing My Best captures Willy Kosovich, an amateur artist from Berlin, as he sketches strangers for free on the streets of Sheffield in England. The UK director Rosie Baldwin ...

In A Cream and Two Plains (2002), the Australian filmmaker Damian Gascoigne captures his mother Rosa’s perspective on her home of more than 30 years after she has decided to sell it. ‘Plying her with ...

Just breathe! When you’re gripped by anxiety, hearing this well-intentioned advice can be infuriating. Compared with the power of my body’s fight-or-flight response, the notion that I can find calm by ...

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This dust, these rays, this strange internal sense that after all these years, I finally exist — all of this is only mine through you. In her mid-40s, the US poet and scholar Joy Ladin transitioned ...

Motivation – and the lack of it – can feel like one of the most paradoxical, often frustrating experiences we face on a daily basis. How can we intensely want to eat dessert, study or go to the gym, ...