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Oona Hanson is a writer, educator and parent coach who specializes in helping families navigate diet culture and eating disorders. A common misconception about eating disorders is that they afflict ...

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Did Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) fake technical difficulties to ignore CNN John Berman’s questions about whether he supported the Trump administration’s threat to make permanent mass layoffs if the ...

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Here are seven problematic ways of thinking that can ensnare even the brightest leaders, as well as specific solutions to overcome them.

Mamello Thinyane receives funding from Optus and CSIRO. In 2024, more than A$2.03 billion was lost to scams in Australia across 494,732 reported cases. Most of these scams were enabled by technology, ...

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google's AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly ...

We’ve all met someone who thinks they can do no wrong. While there are people who can apologize with ease and admit when they’ve made a mistake, let’s face it, it’s never easy to admit fault. For some ...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra ...