The Catholic Church has a new supreme pontiff—and he’s from the South Side of Chicago. These are words that no reporter alive today ever really expected to be writing. Until very recently, the ...

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It would be nice if senior U.S. officials talked with expert advisers—or even consulted Google—before speaking in public about a subject.

I’m sorry you and so many other academics are being attacked by the most anti-science, anti-history, anti-scholarship, anti-reality administration in U.S. history. There has always been an ...

Inaction only emboldens the USS Harry S. Truman’s enemies, which in this case include gravity and potentially a giant ocean ...

I’m an elder millennial who has had pretty good “success” and am now C-level for my division. I started my career in the same ...

I’ve made a very personal decision and I don’t need advice about it, but I do need advice about how to share it with others.

About two months ago, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency began ravaging high-profile government offices ...

For nearly three years, my sister “Shelly” and her husband have been trying to start a family without success. Shelly has ...

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Dear Prudence, The toilet in our guest bathroom recently leaked all over the floor. It turned out the cause was a ...

Jenée Desmond Harris and Daria Burke answer one more letter.