Believe it or not, sugary soda consumption in the United States has been falling for more than two decades. Public messaging on the risks of overindulging in sugary drinks — such as weight gain, ...

Joe Jackson repeatedly asks in his 1986 song “Right and Wrong”: "Right and wrong, do you know the difference?” Here are some statements made on this issue: All of us do not usually agree on what is ...

The elders in my family were big on safe investments. Growing up in the 1980s, I can recall receiving savings bonds as birthday gifts from far-flung aunts and grandmothers. Though these bonds were ...

Having a lot of savings buys you flexibility later in life. You don't want to completely sacrifice your near-term happiness to build a giant nest egg. Striking a balance can be hard to do, but it's ...

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Is there such a thing as a "gay voice"? And if so, what constitutes it? Broadhurst says this intersection − an area of academia known as "lavender linguistics" − is one she's been passionate about for ...

In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in ...

We've heard it before: whether it's love or the gig of our dreams, the thing we're searching for often finds us when we stop looking. "Such A Thing," a song from Alex Isley and Jack Dine, features a ...

Goethe's Werther from The Sorrows of Young Werther commits suicide when Charlotte does not return his love. The long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac from Rostand's eponymous play is madly in love with his ...

Does anyone know anything about a curious medical syndrome called tachysensia? Searching the web gets one only as far as a similar curiosity called “The Alice in Wonderland” syndrome, often called ...

In an uncategorizable new musical, “Black No More,” the rapper Tariq Trotter investigates Black identity — a matter that has occupied his whole career. Trotter onstage at the Pershing Square Signature ...