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I grew up knowing the first day of deer-hunting season without ever looking at a calendar. In rural southern Indiana, the ...

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Alizeh Kohari is a writer, editor and reporter who divides her time between Pakistan and the United States. She most recently worked at Global Press, training reporters across the world, from Mexico ...

Discussing experiences of sexual abuse, particularly for men, can be isolating and fraught with stigma, leaving survivors to navigate long-lasting trauma in silence. Confronting that silence, the US ...

After one friend was shot and another stabbed – both fatally – a London teenager named Shan turned to ChatGPT. She had tried conventional mental health services first but, like a quarter of teenagers ...

‘Feet together, thighs apart.’ I stood, shuffled my feet together, and peered at the reflection in my bedroom mirror. Light from the lamp behind me highlighted the outline of my jeans and the gap ...

After my son was born, I developed the habit of waking him to make sure he was asleep. He would finally drift off with his mouth slightly open, making soft, milky lip-smacking sounds, his breathing ...

‘I love the sparkle,’ I said in passing to a woman wearing a gold-sequin-bedecked abaya as she was leaving the restrooms at Mall of America. A few minutes later (it was a very long line), another ...

You likely know the feeling: you’re in a normal conversation when, all of a sudden, it’s interrupted by a frustrating glitch. You’re sure you know the word you’re looking for, your brain seems to be ...

The American psychologist and social philosopher B F Skinner (1904-1990) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. He is best known for his experiments on, and theoretical ...

Philip Pettit is the L S Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. A recent book, Just ...