As Theo Huxtable, Malcolm-Jamal Warner had to represent young Black men on the highest-rated show on television while still appealing to middle America, writes Dart Adams. Watching another creative Black young man made me feel like I could also achieve big things, too.
The real story from the New York City mayoral primary isn't Zohran Mamdani's victory, but voters' response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College.
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Two of my favorite musicians, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt, are being feted in this twilight of their careers, writes Mark Schlack. I’m thrilled to see them get their due,...
Cog editor Kate Neale Cooper is a runner. Or at least she used to be. In midlife, I’m not willing to accept that my running days are over, she writes,...
Pavithra Natarajan ran triathlons in her 20s, before she lost herself in the quotidian of being a wife and mother. Years passed, then a chance encounter nudged awake something inside...
Animal shelters, scrambling for temporary foster homes to avoid overcrowding and the resulting health issues, face myths and misapprehensions about cats that scare off potential fosters, writes Rich Barlow. Allow...
The average engagement lasts 15 months, writes Kate Neale Cooper. During that time, couples often talk about bridesmaids dresses and centerpieces, first dances and seating arrangements. But what if, instead,...
The courts continue to be the only bulwark against an overreaching executive, writes Nancy Gertner, a former U.S. District Court judge. After the high court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions, it...
Many women who initiate divorce tell me their spouse was more like an unreliable assistant than a true partner, writes psychotherapist Oona Metz. Eventually, after years of unproductive conversations, the...
When Linda Button's other half decided to become a beekeeper, he transformed their backyard. He cleared a space for the hives, lining it with rocks and building trellises with flowering...
The immigrant experience is defined by the quiet courage of reconciling where we come from with whom we hope to become, writes Evy Peña. We belong in the different versions...
While literacy might not be required to do a job laying bricks or hammering nails, it is required to get it, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. From online applications to QR...
Theoretically, Cog editor Cloe Axelson should be great at keeping a journal. But she has a nagging (if slightly unhinged) worry that she could be run over by a bus:...
It’s Pride month, and Jason Prokowiew has been thinking about a high school bully — one who surprised him. It couldn’t have taken more than a few minutes, and is...
Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and Kunda Kwabisha Mikanda. Eliminating U.S. funding to combat it around...
Connecting with the dead doesn’t require Ouija boards or mediums, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. It can be a form of companionship, an act of gratitude, a private tribute that enriches...
Becoming a grandfather has – in a single stroke – renewed my license to be silly, writes Bob Brody. All the humor, all the nonsense that I kept bottled up...
Trump arrived back in office primed to deliver on his mutually beneficial relationship with the fossil fuel industry, writes Frederick Hewett. After contriving a national energy crisis, he is using...
After my divorce, the end of a 10-year relationship, I wondered if I’d ever find another life partner, writes Tove Danovich. And then I realized I already had — lots...
