Video meetings dampen brainstorming because we are so hyper-focused on the face in that box that we don’t let our eyes and minds wander as much, a new study found. Staring isn’t good for creativity.
Dear Amy: My mom has invited me, my husband, and our two teenagers to her home for a special occasion dinner. Our household, and my mom, have all been vaccinated and boosted for COVID.
State Sen. Rick Kloos waded into the cultural warfare fray on Facebook last week by calling for the Shawnee Heights High School superintendent to remove the book “Gender Queer” from the school library.
Dear Amy: I am a 35-year-old professional woman, recently separated from my husband of nine years. Our marriage has been rife with volatility due to his uncontrollable anger and my tumultuous relationship with alcohol during our relationship.
If I could show my sixth-grade self something shocking, a strong contender would be the relationship that I currently have with my parents. In 2011 we moved from Fort Leavenworth, where I could play with all my friends until the streetlights came on, to the county, where I had neither friends nor streetlights. I hated my parents for making this necessary choice. I vowed that if I didn’t run away, I would at least go to college someday and never come back.
College students squeezed by a massive housing shortage and surging rents are paying too much for moldy apartments, commuting long distances or sleeping in their cars to get an education – and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
One of the great stains against guarantees of due process enshrined in the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution has been the practice of lynch mob justice. While there are no universally agreed upon statistics as to the exact number of lynchings in U.S. history, the Tuskekee Institute of Alabama states that between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the U.S.
Dear Amy: Recently, I was in a car accident involving a young man who tried to commit suicide by jumping into my car’s path. My 2-year-old was in the car with me but (thankfully) doesn’t seem to have noticed when I hit the man.
More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided. And a majority of Black Americans – but fewer white and Hispanic Americans – approve of her confirmation.
Intelligence officials had gathered to brief select members of Congress on future threats to U.S. elections when a key lawmaker in the room, No. 3 House Republican Elise Stefanik of New York, tried to move the discussion to a new topic: Hunter Biden’s laptop.