In January 2023, Prince Harry – the Duke of Sussex and second son of King Charles III and the late Princess Diana – published his memoir Spare through Penguin Random House, and it became one of the fastest-selling nonfiction books in publishing history. The 407-page book covers his life from childhood to his decision to step back...
A grocery price comparison published in early 2026 by Business Insider has put two of America’s most popular retailers under the microscope – and the results landed differently than most shoppers probably expected. Business Insider writer Savannah Born, based in Indianapolis, compared 32 common grocery items at both Walmart and Costco, calculating the cost per pound or...
I’m sure no adult just wakes up one morning and decides to write off their parents. Anyone who has made that decision probably knows how hard it was to make. But research consistently shows that a sizeable share of adult children will become estranged from a parent at some point. It tends to happen more...
Right now, astrologers and hopeless romantics are paying close attention to one of the year’s most charged love transits: Venus in Aries. According to some planetary overviews, Venus moves into Aries on March 6, 2026, kicking off a fiery stretch of spring energy that reshapes the romantic climate for all 12 signs. This is the...
Gen Z – broadly defined as people born between 1997 and 2012 – is the first generation to have grown up entirely in the digital age. Smartphones, streaming services, and social media have been constants since childhood. So the pivot toward slow, tactile, analog pursuits is not a nostalgic impulse (they have no memory of...
Canadian Olympic bobsleigh athlete Cynthia Appiah brought fresh attention to a very recognizable social dynamic in early 2026, when she shared a story on TikTok about bullying on a plane that resonated far beyond her sport. Appiah had just returned from competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, where she finished 13th in the...
Across the United States, restaurants and bars are adopting phone-free dining policies in growing numbers, asking guests to put their devices away – and in some cases, locking them up entirely – before sitting down to eat. At least 11 states now have individual restaurants or bars with some form of phone restriction or a...
Eileen McGill Fox went looking for one answer and got eight she never expected. The Florida school teacher and mother of four had been married for nearly 30 years when she discovered that her husband had been unfaithful. What followed was a medical journey that started with a routine check-up and eventually led to a...
A landmark U.S. study published on April 13, 2025 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found no connection between fluoride in drinking water and IQ scores or cognitive ability at any point from childhood through age 80. The research, led by Dr. John Robert Warren, a sociologist and population health expert at the University of Minnesota,...
A team of researchers led by Byungkyu Lee, an assistant professor of sociology at New York University, published findings in February 2026 that many people will recognize on a gut level: the difficult people in your life are not just emotionally exhausting. They may be accelerating how fast your body ages at a cellular level....
Most people grow up learning the difference between a friendly pat and a harmful one. But ask the average person where exactly the legal line falls – when an unwanted touch stops being rude and becomes genuinely illegal – and the answers get fuzzy fast. Unlawful physical contact, as defined under US law, refers to...
Psychology textbooks describe Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as a relatively rare condition. Real-world investigators often tell a different story. NPD – a clinically recognized personality disorder listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5-TR) – is defined by a persistent pattern of grandiosity, an intense need for admiration, and...
