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Amazon really wants to you to buy things next week. This year’s Prime Day, which is not so much a holiday or a sale as a collective mass hysteria, will take place July 12 and 13, and the mega-retailer is not only providing the illusion it is cutting prices on thousands of products (that you probably don’t need), it’s…

I have long been on the record about my loyalty to silk sheets, but what I less frequently disclose is what a pain in the ass they are to wash and de-wrinkle. They’re finicky, fragile, and they’re so shiny that every wrinkle is magnified, which almost defeats the purpose of having something so obnoxiously luxurious in…

If you haven’t been already, you’re about to start hearing a lot about the so-called “blackout challenge,” which is causing an uproar online. TikTok is being sued by the families of two young girls who died, allegedly due to the viral challenge. The families call the app’s algorithms “dangerous” and blame the social…

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Amazon’s “Prime Day” event is back for another year: another complex, multi-tentacled web of alleged discounts. But at its heart, it’s the same thing as any old sale or coupon—a way of getting you to spend more money while pointing out that technically, if you do the math a certain way, you can tell yourself you’re…

From the Weather Underground movement of the 1960s to the Capitol attacks of January 6, 2021, the stories of radicals and radicalist movements are often violent, mysterious, and packed with fascinating characters.

As the United States enters a new era of even more divisive politics, looking to the past can help us…

While aging is inevitable, spending money on your birthday is not. Thanks to a combination of the digital revolution and late-stage capitalism, every chain restaurant is vying for your business by offering perks via their app’s loyalty programs, with a frequent incentive being a free reward on your birthday. With the…

Congratulations, you just bought your first home! After years of apartment living, exotic stuff like extra bedrooms, garage space, and a backyard seems pretty exciting, right? Even a modest starter home can make you feel like an aristocrat—for a while, until you think about all the stuff you need to buy to make it…

There are films and TV series that make cooking (and eating) feel like joyous, unifying activities that bring families and cultures together. There are others that remind us that the business of preparing food is stressful, harried, and sweaty. FX’s buzzy new series The Bear, starring Jeremy Allen White as the head…

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Many kids with one of the various diagnoses that fall under the umbrella of neurodivergency exhibit behaviors that, to the untrained or unsympathetic eye, look like bad behavior. When my son is anxious, for example, he doesn’t hide behind my skirts—that’s a “flight” response, and my child’s stress response looks more…

There’s lots of content out there to help you decide what to cook with your fancy sous vide precision, immersion, circulation, sans conflagration tool, or so I’ve heard. I’ve read about all the cool things one can sous vide with tantalizing results—juicy steaks, cheesecakes, buttery lobster tails, and the silkiest of…

It’s not an official holiday, but Amazon’s Prime Day (“Days,” really) has been a capitalist tradition since 2015. This year, the mega-retailer will be offering discounts on thousands of products of all kinds to Amazon Prime members beginning on Tuesday, July 12, and continuing through Wednesday, July 13.

We all need more sleep. Although adults typically should get more than seven hours a night, more than one-third of Americans average less than that despite chronic sleep deprivation having well-known impacts on our overall health—like increasing the risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. But although there’s no…

The main thing that separates kids from older people isn’t the technological divide or that kids haven’t fully internalized the inevitability of their own death. It’s that young people have so much more time on their hands than we do. The freedom from having to support themselves and clean everything leaves plenty of…

Biscuits can stir up a great deal of tension when you suggest tinkering with a traditional recipe. Well, things are about to get awkward. I made biscuits with a cherry fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt cup, and I liked it. Frankly, I prefer it to other biscuits. I completely understand that some family recipes are great, and…

The popular online wisdom holds that Amazon is evil and you should stop giving them your money. Yet some 76.6 million households in the United States use Amazon Prime, so either the message just hasn’t gotten through to some of us, or we’ve resigned ourselves to our fates. And if you’re going to make a deal with the…