My Mother-in-Law Made a Wild Accusation Against Me. We Proved Her Wrong. But She’s Still Spreading Her Lies.
She claimed that I must be the source of it because I was supposedly cheating on her son and had left germs on the toilet ...
My Family Struggles With a Common Problem. I Think It’s Up to Me to Break the Silence.
Fast forward to now. My father died a couple years ago. Due to my father’s erratic spending during the period when she was ...
People Are Using It to Pay for Cold-Plunge Tubs—and to Stockpile Money for Retirement. It Started Out as Something Else Entirely.
It’s all something any nutrition coach might encounter—except, at Good Nutrition, patients can now pay using their HSA or FSA ...
I Used to Be My Boyfriend’s Biggest, Most Secret Turn-On. Now I’m the Opposite.
How do I handle finding out that I was a fetish for my boyfriend, and that now I’m not anymore? I’m so uncomfortable thinking ...
Warping Time, in This Week’s Open Thread
On this day in 1918, daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. Time meant nuthin’, never ...
The Peculiar Pleasure of Cryptic Crosswords
I hadn’t really appreciated, before Ludwig came out, that cryptic crosswords are something with a strong British flavor, ...
I Survived Ashton Hall’s Morning Routine
A shirtless Ashton Hall steps into the bathroom, pectorals throbbing. He rubs his hands together with vigor and peels off ...
Trump Executive Order Says States Must Use Voting Machines That Don’t Actually Exist
Driven by Trump’s decadeslong fixation on false claims of voter fraud, the order mandates that proof of citizenship be added ...
What the Videos of the Pools Falling Off Skyscraper Roofs Can Tell Us About the Myanmar Earthquake
They expose the fissures in society, between those who have a well-built home, an insurance policy, or somewhere else to ...
A Complete Guide to What Parts of Crypto Are Serious—and What Parts You Can Ignore
This inadequate presentation of crypto value is a common theme, as the crypto journalist Molly White has detailed. Some coins ...
How Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Makes Life Easier for Fentanyl Traffickers
Trump wasn’t always a fan of crypto. As recently as 2021, he was referring to Bitcoin, the most well-known type of ...
So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans?
The Trump administration’s efforts to dissolve the Department of Education have left a wave of chaos in its wake.