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Japan's first female prime minister is set to be formally reappointed after engineering a mass cabinet resignation — a procedural manoeuvre that reveals as much about the fragility of her coalition as it does about her ambitions to reshape the country's economic and security posture.
In 2025, the language of therapy jumped the fence.
“Karen” had a long run as internet shorthand for entitled, manager-seeking behavior.
I live in São Paulo, where Spanish and Portuguese dance through daily life.
Last week, I sat on the couch in our apartment in Itaim Bibi after cleaning the kitchen, prepping Emilia’s snacks, and texting my husband about a grocery list.
Last Saturday night, after Emilia fell asleep and the kitchen counters were cleared, my husband and I sat on the balcony with mint tea and the noise of São Paulo in the distance.
On an average weeknight in any big city, the soundtrack isn’t sirens or jackhammers.
If chewing, sniffing, or pen-clicking flips your mood in a heartbeat, you’ve got company—and better science.A new peer-reviewed paper pulls the field toward a clear, testable explanation of misophonia: not “oversensitive ears,” but a fast, learned loop linking sound, attention, emotion, and bodily arousal.
On the last week of December, my group chats were full of reminders to set an alarm for 1:11 on January 1. The plan sounded simple.
You don’t need a laboratory to know that romance can make ordinary life feel charged.
For years, families have argued through the same sleepy standoff: a teenager surfaces at noon on Saturday; an adult taps their watch and worries about “ruining the schedule.” New evidence makes a strong case for a truce.
If you’ve ever started an antidepressant and spent weeks waiting to see if it helps, you know the hardest part is the guesswork.
