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I feel terrible because my actions are putting someone out of his home, but I also don’t know how to help.

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Help! My Parents Are Going to Bankrupt Themselves Trying to Pay for My Wedding.

Help! My Boyfriend Doesn’t Know Why He Loves Me.

We Want to Take a Family Trip to Disneyland … and Leave One Kid at Home

Chris Licht Failed at CNN. And So Did His One Big Idea.

Need Advice? Ask our columnists.

The Freedom Caucus Is Having Another Temper Tantrum

My Ex Has Me Trapped in a Sex Trance

The Unbelievable Orange Sky Northeasterners Are Staring at Today

Progressive Judges May Have Found a Use for Clarence Thomas’ Terrible Guns Ruling

The Royal Family Is Freaked Out by Prince Harry’s Court Testimony. Maybe It Should Be.

Congress Just Upended the Legal Case Against Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan

Who, or What, Is a “Matt Rife”?

Trump Is Telling Us How He’ll Respond to Future Indictments

The PGA Tour’s Grim, Blockbuster Merger

The Team Trying Very, Very Hard to Be the Worst in Baseball History

The Curse of the Bravo Reality Show Has Come for One of Its Greatest Franchises

The Spider-Verse Proliferates

The Short-Lived, Very Controversial Healy-Swift Affair

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Actors Are Already Selling Digital Clones of Themselves for $500. Are Stars Next?

My Neighbors’ Kid Hit My Car. They Hate How I Fixed the Situation.

This Won’t Be the Last Time the East Coast Experiences Wildfire Smoke. Here’s How to Handle It.

Starbucks Torched Its Progressive Reputation. Ben & Jerry’s … Chilled

The Feds Are Going After Coinbase. But They Have a Bigger Target.

How to Turn Kindergartners Into Fact-Checkers

The Feds Are Going After Binance. It Looks Like FTX but Worse.

Chris Licht Failed at CNN. And So Did His One Big Idea.

The Mysterious Origins of Modern Yoga’s Go-To Move

Need Advice? Ask our columnists.

My Ex Has Me Trapped in a Sex Trance

My Family’s Entire Life Is Based Around Video Games. I Can’t Take It Anymore.

Help! My Friend Kept Up the Same Infuriating Habit for Years. Now She Wants Another Chance.

I Wish My Son Weren’t So Freakishly Smart

Help! My Husband Had a Child With Another Woman, Then Died. Everyone Has Opinions On What I Should Do.

Trump Blew an Enormous Hole in His Classified Documents Defense

The Unbelievable Orange Sky Northeasterners Are Staring at Today

Progressive Judges May Have Found a Use for Clarence Thomas’ Terrible Guns Ruling

Wow, Jack Smith Has Been Busy!

Liberals Have to Fall Out of Love With the Supreme Court

Congress Just Upended the Legal Case Against Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan

The Trump-Era Fascination With the Politics of Rural America Just Won’t Die

The Freedom Caucus Is Having Another Temper Tantrum