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Can AI Remind Us That Connection Is What We're Searching For? Jul. 18, 2025
Lately, when I tell people that I am a writer, the conversation inevitably turns to artificial intel... Read More
Are We Losing Our Humanity Along With Our Empathy? May. 24, 2025
On the night of May 21, someone shot two young Israeli Embassy employees walking out of the Capital ... Read More
Today's Best Getaway Vehicles Have Pages, Not Wheels Dec. 18, 2024
In 1966, Timothy Leary, the psychedelics guru, famously told a crowd of 30,000 hippies in San Franci... Read More
Joe Biden Flips, Pardons Son Hunter. No One Is Surprised Dec. 02, 2024
WASHINGTON — I am glad President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter. I don't think it would be ... Read More
Father's Day Reminder: We've Got a Fine One as President Jun. 18, 2024
Hunter Biden's criminal conviction for denying that he was a drug addict when he was one was suppose... Read More
On Parenting: These 7 Things I Know for Sure Mar. 10, 2023
I am by no means a perfect parent, but I have three kids ages 27, 22 and 7 years old. I swear the yo... Read More
Forgive Others -- And Yourself -- For the Small Mistakes With Big Consequences Feb. 04, 2023
I had surgery on my knee recently, the second in a series of operations to correct a problem with my... Read More
Putting Profanity in Its Place: Can We Stop Pretending We're Shocked? Mar. 25, 2022
The truth, as we all know, is that profanity is part of the grown-up world. It's in our movies, musi... Read More
Colorado Lawmakers Pass Kids' Independence Bill Mar. 17, 2022
Colorado kids should be getting on their sneakers. Thanks to their state legislators, they will soon... Read More
Mistrusting Adults, Mistrusting Kids Mar. 10, 2022
The signs on every playground in my city, New York, say this: "Playground rules prohibit adults exce... Read More
Shine Bright on All the Picture Days Feb. 27, 2022
The email said that the kids were allowed to wear whatever they liked. Since they go to a school wit... Read More
Why Your Child's Personality Should Determine How You Parent Feb. 25, 2022
"He gets that from you." How many times have you said that to your partner about one of your childre... Read More
The Making of a Reader Feb. 04, 2022
There's a voracious reader in all of us, I thought, but my youngest daughter was determined to prove... Read More
Kids Keep Getting their Freedom Later Feb. 04, 2022
On Twitter last week, I asked those born BEFORE 1982 and those born AFTER to tell us what age they w... Read More
At School, Learning Helplessness Jan. 27, 2022
Jodi M. is a seventh-grade health teacher in a quiet, distant suburb of New York City. She is worrie... Read More
If You See Something, Post Something Jan. 06, 2022
"Child Luring Incident!" read the warning that appeared last Friday on several Teaneck, New Jersey, ... Read More
What Kids Learn When They're 'Just' Playing Dec. 23, 2021
We're heading into two weeks (or possibly ... two months? two years?) of the kids at home. It's call... Read More
Rep. Bush, Other Congresswomen Humanize the Abortion Debate With Their Stories Oct. 04, 2021
Those who would deny women control over their own bodies tend to present the abortion-rights debate ... Read More
Our Empathetic Authoritarians Jul. 28, 2021
America has a crisis of empathy. That crisis isn't expressed as lack of charitable giving: Americans... Read More
The Benefits of Empathy in the Workplace: An Interview With Dina Kaplan Jun. 05, 2021
I met Dina Kaplan at one of her many meditation and yoga classes in New York. I immediately fell in ... Read More
