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A viral video shows a white woman who called a 5-year-old boy the N-word at...
One thing that doesn’t fit neatly in the Trump narrative is thousands upon thousands of...
Jason Patera is moving to South Carolina to be with his family, leaving a legacy...
Roger DuClos was my friend’s dad and my dad’s friend; loving, safe grown-ups shape a...
Segregationist Strom Thurmond's senate-speech record was broken by Booker, a man whose rights he fought...
The Trump administration's policies and actions do not demonstrate that the party values the lives...
Psychology professor Ethan Kross has a powerful reframing of what so many of us may...
America has done so much good, and it has also done tremendous harm. Acknowledging both...
Scott Boorstein wanted to change the world. This year, in his honor, his loved ones...
You don’t have to be a journalist to demand answers from people in charge. But...
To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity —...
Marie and Kevin Mayer's five children found a drawer full of love letters — mostly...
Tuberville lamented what he says is an overreliance on medication to treat ADHD. He lost...
We're living in a country where needing help is for losers and providing it is...
When she addressed Donald Trump, Budde undoubtedly expected blowback. But that didn’t prevent her from...
We should resist the urge to wall ourselves off from what’s painful, and instead take...
In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled...
Here are some of the things from the past year, in no particular order, that...
I’m trying to reconcile the playfulness of pajama day with to the flattened fury of...
Craig Mindrum hopes his friends never stop asking about Jonathan or sharing stories about him....
One of my favorite things about the holidays is the lengths that grown-ups go to...
I know some people can relate to worrying that your holidays won’t look the way...
The move ought to send a chill down the spine of every person who cares...
A campaign to send holiday cards — or cards for no occasion — to LGBTQ ...
We are a body politic. Bodies do best when all of their parts are functioning....
In my 40s, I learned to pause and look up. It’s wonderful, in that it...
We don’t talk enough in our culture about the emotional weight of saying goodbye to...
I want to focus on a different quote from Harris, which is less pithy but...
Whatever words we’re cringing about our kids hearing from a certified educator, we’ll cringe into...
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock has a saying: “A vote is a kind of prayer for...
A group of kids saw an opening — to heal a wound, to brighten a...
The former president's lie raises a larger question: What if we tuned into each other’s...
Gus Walz reminded us what it looks like to be proud, to be joyful, to...
I’ve said goodbye to things, writes Heidi Stevens. Jobs. Homes. Friendships. Marriages. Saying goodbye to...
Immigrant girl's trauma lasted to her deathbed, reminding parents that birthdays are sacred, and we...
I don’t know what will happen in November. But the path that’s taking us there...
What if the pithy memes about wishing our nation cared as much about third-graders as...
I put out a call for advice from parents who’ve launched their kids — to...