Advice
Guidance, tools, and frameworks to help you live a better life.
Meditation feels selfish when the world is on fire.
How 20,000 steps became a new sign of wellness.
Obsessing over your fitness tracker might make you feel awful.
What do you actually owe your partner’s family?
To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.
Teenagers today are dating less than ever. What’s really happening?
Is it inevitable that your close friendships suffer when you enter a new relationship?
What to do when your partner wants an open marriage and you don’t.
Suddenly can’t stand the way your partner chews? That’s resentment.
How much effort is too much to keep your romance afloat?
A barrage of products promise you can get your hair — and self-esteem — back.
Americans are losing faith in their friends and neighbors. Here’s how to reverse course.
How to get parents and friends to get serious about doing good.
Young adults from around the world are struggling.
How to contend with an onslaught of guidance in an uncertain, lonely world.
No one cares as much as you do.
Nothing will cure you of perfectionism faster than trying to grow living things.
The loving, aggravating, inescapable relationship that lasts a lifetime.
It’s time to take a hard look at your own finances — and theirs.
I want to believe I can make a positive impact from the inside, but maybe I’m deluding myself.
The world feels more menacing, even if it isn’t.
It feels very tempting to cocoon myself in relaxing hobbies to spare my mental health.
Super-schedulers have a solution for our busy lives. Not everyone is a fan.
It feels terrible to do nothing while the market tanks. It’s still the best course of action.
There are other ways to invest in yourself besides homeownership.
I value my independence and don’t want my partner to end up controlling me.
I spent a week living with the new Light Phone. It wasn’t long enough.
The best regimen starts before you start sneezing.
I want to fight rising authoritarianism. But I’m scared of becoming a target.
Easy rules for decluttering, even for pack rats.
Boredom can be a powerful force — if you know how to interpret it.
It took months of living without Spotify’s algorithm to realize I had trained it too well.
A dating coach for men on the state of relationships.
How to make sure your expectations for a partner are realistic.
Winter lovers share their tips for making the most of the season.
I feel intense guilt after getting angry. And if I shrug off that guilt, I worry I’ll become a bad person.
Why you should aim for one meaningful social interaction a day and other strategies for improving your “social biome.”