Don’t let a messy house stop you from hosting
Inviting people over to hang out at my house is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I don’t need ...
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When your garden fails, the magic happens
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, ...
How to talk to your boomer parents about retirement
Money is always stressful, but between on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs, inflation, and a general sense of uncertainty, all things finance ...
Political news is making me miserable. Is it wrong to tune out?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. To ...
I can’t afford a house right now. Am I screwed?
“Should I buy a house?” That’s the question that a listener, Miranda, brought to Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly ...
My boyfriend wants to pay my expenses. Am I a bad feminist if I let him?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. To ...
The surprising thing I learned from quitting Spotify
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons ...
Introverts should (sometimes) act like extroverts
If I ever need a reminder that I’m not a natural extrovert, I need only to look at the journal ...
She lived in an underground bunker for 10 days. Here’s what she learned.
In a Cold War-era bunker-turned-Airbnb situated 50 feet below ground in Arkansas, journalist Lynne Peeples conducted an experiment to better ...
Why you need one meaningful social interaction a day
On the days when he’s not in front of a classroom of students, University of Kansas professor Jeffrey Hall is ...
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