
The Holocaust Started With My Great-Uncle’s Murder
Arthur Kahn is believed to be the first Jewish person killed by the Nazis. I’ve known the story of his death as long as I can remember, but I wanted to learn the story of his life.
Arthur Kahn is believed to be the first Jewish person killed by the Nazis. I’ve known the story of his death as long as I can remember, but I wanted to learn the story of his life.
I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.
People told me that a parent’s love is different from any other kind. Now I know better.
Focus on the long term. Don’t try to replace your ex. Plus three more cures for unhealthy romantic habits.
Rewriting the stories you tell about yourself can make for a better future.
America’s lack of family support rests on a false assumption: that providing help discourages parents from taking responsibility for their children.
Many of us working to protect access to abortion are doing so because of our faith, not in spite of it.
“It’s shown me the extent to which human beings can be extraordinary to each other.”
Swearing can make you happier, as long as you do it for the right reasons.
Adolescents in the U.S. are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
Although these platforms say they are doing what they can to keep kids under 18 off, they aren’t succeeding.
Following last month’s shooting, students around the country wrote letters to legislators and to the bereaved, expressing their fear, sadness, and desire for change.
No one’s judging you as harshly as you judge yourself.
Offering “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting has become synonymous with doing nothing at all. But faith, in its best form, requires intent to act.
Seeing news of mass shooting after mass shooting can produce both a stress response and a cynical sense that nothing will change.
Despite the hopelessness after Uvalde, we’re closer to understanding the kind of social movement that might actually affect gun reform.
I have felt for many years that she has kept me at arm’s length, and it seems to have worsened recently.
The internet can be toxic or unproductive. But in its better forms, it’s an interest like any other—one that can become a keystone of a world that partners build together.
Middle age is an opportunity to find transcendence.
I wish I could tell the people of Uvalde that they will be the last mourners. But in the decade since the Newtown shooting, we’ve refused to answer the question of what it would take to actually change something.
I can no longer honestly tell my kids that everything will be okay.
Sabbaticals can give people an invaluable opportunity to rest and reflect on their identity beyond their job.