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After the 900th Saturday of rain in Boston, I spoke with Dan Savage, a sex and relationship columnist from Seattle.
Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.
An essentialist view assumes that the label "refugee" carries a fixed set of characteristics that are shared by all refugees, ...
Charlotte Rampling and Richard Harris are the heavy-hitting Oscar nominees facing off with a big plastic whale.
From Grenfell Tower to ancient Mediterranean cities, we're still creating gods and shrines in unexpected places.
Conventional housing wisdom dictates that if you can’t afford Los Angeles or New York City, try Austin or Atlanta. For years, ...
In both Jewish and Chinese cultures, the home is more than a dwelling—it is a sacred space that reflects the soul of a family ...
The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a ...
The Nation on MSN1d
Joan Didion Undone
Notes to John, posthumously published journal entries chronicling Didion’s therapy sessions, is a peek into the myths and ...
A new study from Lebanon finds that people with authoritarian beliefs tend to oppose violence against political leaders, ...
Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.
The first robot I remember is Rosie from The Jetsons, soon followed by the urbane C-3PO and his faithful sidekick R2-D2 in ...