My time for friendships is limited. I’m not inclined to spend it in a commercialized version of one. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been the The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist ...

Dear Eric: My best friend of nearly 50 years has been diagnosed with cancer, and the prognosis isn’t good. Naturally, I want to support her, but she’s making it very challenging. I just spoke with her ...

On Wednesday, my friend and political sparring partner, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. He left us at the young age of 31 years old. Like you, I am in total shock and ...

Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who is realizing his friends may find his personality hard to take. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling ...

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Katy’s Cat Café owner Marian Morcos, 26, was inspired to open her purring parlor—named after her 17-year-old Russian blue cat—after visiting a cat café in Denver when she was 18. Although these cafés, ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

I matched with a guy on Hinge about three months ago. He (40s, male) and I (50s, female) hit it off right away. It was actually hot. We met at a hotel bar and got a room right away, no strings ...

Sitting in a music studio in Los Angeles, Piper Rockelle is counting down the last days of her childhood. First famous at age 8 and now an infamous influencer with 17.1 million TikTok followers, 12.2 ...

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Dear Eric: My daughter is getting married next year at a location that is about a six-hour drive from here and accessible only by ferry. It will be an outdoor wedding so there may be a lot of walking ...