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You are writing this because you know it’s not ethical but want, as your sign-off indicates, permission to look the other way. Look, I’d love to be God and rewrite the rules as we know them—and after ...

My husband, “Mason,” and I have a 6-year-old daughter, “Evelyn,” who is the joy of our lives. She is an only child and we are ...

Getting too stoned always has been—and always will be—an absolutely awful feeling. You reach that tipping point where your ...

In Alsace, and neighboring regions, these eggs are called [hare] eggs because of the myth told to fool simple people and ...

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Shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order halting the Trump administration’s reported ...

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​​Recently, I had a fight so big with my boyfriend at Walmart that I just ran out to the car and drove home, leaving him at ...

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Instead—and despite Myles’ efforts—no matter where you live and how legal it is, the practice of buying drugs still feels trapped in a liminal zone between normal shopping and under-the-table commerce ...

I divorced my children’s dad for a “bad” reason in their minds, and they are so angry, and I’m not sure how to work through ...