I don’t like my teenage stepson. At all. I work with kids his age, so for the purposes of this letter, I’ll ask you to trust that his level of rude, ungracious, and mean-spirited behavior has gone ...
I remember watching my neighbor with her granddaughter one summer evening. They were on the front steps with a plastic tea set, the kind that always loses one cup. My neighbor let the little girl pour ...
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In December 2025, I (born in 2002) logged in from Iran to speak to students gathered in “Arts Tower LT5” at University of Sheffield. The screen flickered; their winter coats rustled in a distant ...
The Curious Case Of… examines Sarah Delashmit’s decades-long medical fraud, from faking muscular dystrophy and cancer to her federal conviction and prison sentence for wire and mail fraud.
Politics / What’s a flopping demagogue to do? Lash out at his enemies, pretend he’s doing great, and bore us all into submission. Jeet Heer Donald Trump’s State of the Union address tonight promises ...
It was first a bestselling novel, then a movie and now “Wonder” has been turned into a musical. This story, which recently finished its run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, tells the ...