1+ hour, 38+ min ago  (384+ words) DEAR ABBY: My son is 41 and a recovering drug addict. Currently, he's sober, but he believes he is in an online relationship with a famous actress who is 23 years old. He lives with me and has nothing. He works part…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (380+ words) I never used to be an angry person, and I still don't necessarily consider myself one today. However, over the past few years, I have been experiencing more anger than I had in the span of my life prior. It…...

17+ hour, 7+ min ago  (329+ words) Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the brains of students while they were writing short, deliberately open-ended essays. The researchers" EEG findings were ominous: the students using Chat GPT…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago  (734+ words) This is one more way in which the technology that was meant to connect us has imposed distance. The personal-broadcasting capabilities of social media have, in many cases, not so much enhanced connection as erected a sort of scrim. Online,…...

23+ hour, 3+ min ago  (976+ words) A video opens on a scene of stark banality. A young woman types assiduously on a keyboard in an unnamed office. A headline announcing, "DAY IN MY LIFE: 25-year-old working 9-5 in corporate america," appears at the top. What follows is…...

22+ hour, 56+ min ago  (1113+ words) On the surface, it appeared as though Antoinette Del Rio was a successful 20-something. She had a flourishing career in advertising, took frequent vacations and enjoyed an active social life. But Ms. Del Rio was drinking too much, using weed…...

1+ day, 38+ min ago  (874+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maneesha Panja, a 30-year-old product leader at a small startup living in Brooklyn, New York. This story has been edited for length and clarity. I grew up in the "90s and early…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (596+ words) America's aging population is depressed, miserable, and just generally emotionally, psychologically, and physically weaker than people of the same age around the world. And it's all for the exact reason you can probably deduce without having to think too hard…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (695+ words) Though it's still quite cold in many regions of the U. S. , spring has officially sprung, bringing a much-needed change in seasons after a long, dreary winter. However, with this seasonal shift often comes sleep disruptions. While you might blame doomscrolling or…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (444+ words) A groper is on the loose after a spate of attacks on women after dark on a popular California jogging trail. Multiple women claim they have been assaulted by a man who blinded them with his phone light while they…...