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A survey on global mental well-being shows that the kids are not all right

The Mental Health Million project queried over 220,000 people on well-being — and the results are worrying.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

The surprising link between Covid-19 deaths and ... internet access

The case for treating internet access as a health necessity.

By Keren Landman

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

6 epidemiologists on how omicron is — and isn’t — changing their holiday plans

By Sigal Samuel

Lockdown was not a sabbatical

By Anna North

One Good Thing: A Zoom experience that will still be fun post-pandemic

By Alissa Wilkinson

Citizen science is booming during the pandemic

By Sigal Samuel

How to make this winter not totally suck, according to psychologists

By Sigal Samuel

The rise of working out while working from home

By Sydney Gore

25 cartoons to get obsessed with, now and forever

By Allegra Frank, Aja Romano, and 4 more

The year in things

By Melinda Fakuade

The year reality collapsed into pixels

By Alissa Wilkinson

The isolation of 2020 is doing weird things to our bodies

By Anna North

What was 2020? For me, it was video games.

By Alanna Okun

Here are 6 things to consider about holiday travel

By Terry Nguyen

How to find fitness motivation after this train wreck of a year

By Alex Abad-Santos

A patio expert explains how to make winter socializing tolerable

By Alex Abad-Santos

How do you handle a tiny living space? We asked a Below Deck crew member.

By Alex Abad-Santos

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You can buy a robot to keep your lonely grandparents company. Should you?

As many seniors face down the winter holidays alone, it may be tempting to give them a companion robot as a gift.

By Sigal Samuel

How to keep your houseplants (and yourself) less miserable this winter

By Umair Irfan

How to have a safer — but not safe — pandemic Thanksgiving

By Brian Resnick

Wonder Woman 1984 will debut on HBO Max this Christmas

By Allegra Frank

How the pandemic got people smoking again 

By Melinda Fakuade

Why so many people have started journaling during the pandemic

By Mithila Phadke

Beauty businesses are struggling without us

By Melinda Fakuade

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What was fun?

As we adjust to the "new normal," something’s missing.

By Rachel Sugar

Why plexiglass alone can’t prevent Covid-19 

By Terry Nguyen

Two of the year’s best movies are now on Netflix

By Alissa Wilkinson

A coronavirus consultant shares how she advises businesses on reopening

By Isabella Simonetti

The pandemic is fueling the private tutoring industry

By Terry Nguyen

College towns without college students have small businesses struggling

By Isabella Simonetti

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How do you cover a presidential campaign during a pandemic?

By Peter Kafka

The extremely profitable (and ethically murky) business of reselling dumbbells

By Alex Abad-Santos

The pandemic forced mental health care to change for the better

By Brian Resnick

In these uncertain times, Degrassi is the ultimate comfort

By Allegra Frank

Do you really have to wash your mask after every use? Short answer: Yes.

By Isabella Simonetti

Millions of Americans risk being evicted. This tenants rights lawyer says the courts aren’t prepared.

By Luke Winkie

Nobody saw summer 2020 coming. So how come it felt like the movies did?

By Alissa Wilkinson

Walmart requires that customers wear masks. One former employee says enforcement is impossible.

By Kelli Pate

Why it’s so hard to find dumbbells in the US 

By Alex Abad-Santos

The unexpected joy of the worst summer of our lives

By Christine Mi

The eerie surreality of sports in the Covid-19 bubble

By Emily St. James