How to Fit in a Real Workout When You Have Only 20 Minutes
When you can't dedicate as much time to training as you might like, here's how to keep your priorities straight—without feeling guilty.
Videos
The Deadliest U.S. State to Have a Baby
The United States is the deadliest place to give birth in the developed world and the situation in rural Georgia is particularly dire.
Worst-Rated Orthodontist on Yelp Whitened My Teeth
Taji gets his teeth whitened at a poorly reviewed orthodontist's office.
Mind
22 Ways to Make Thanksgiving Into Your Own Weird, Perfect Holiday
If you can't go see your family or play charades with your friends, why not smash some decorative gourds in the street with a bat?
If You Love Your Family, Cancel This Year's Holiday Gathering
There will come a season where all of our favorite things are possible again. Strongly consider that this isn’t the one.
What to Do If You're Dreading a Whole Month at Home for the Holidays
While staying with your folks from Thanksgiving through the end of the year might make logistical sense, it's a whole other story emotionally.
Body
What to Do If Pandemic Stress Has Now Come for Your Teeth
Advice from dentists (and therapists) about grinding, gritting, and other mouth problems that are on the rise in an already bad time.
How to Have a Safe-ish Friendsgiving This Year
If you take precautions, and if COVID rates are low where you live, a *very* small get-together with your chosen family might be possible.
Resistance Band Workouts Are All Over Instagram and TikTok. Do They Work?
Resistance band workouts for people stuck at home have exploded in popularity in the last few months. Here's how to put them to the best use.
Reproductive Rights
'I'm Feeling Unsafe' – Polish Women Take to the Streets Over Near Total Abortion Ban
Poland has outlawed the most common of few existing grounds for legal termination in the staunchly Catholic country.
Ted Cruz and a Bunch of GOP Senators Are Trying to Ban the Abortion Pill
They're asking the FDA to declare the pill used in about 40% of abortions an “imminent hazard to public health.”
Argentina's Underground Abortion Network Won't Let a Pandemic Get in Its Way
Coronavirus has upended the intimate work of Socorristas en Red, a collective of volunteers who help women get abortions. But it hasn't changed their ultimate goal: a dramatic cultural shift in how Argentina treats women seeking to end their pregnancies.
Healthcare
Should Everyone Get Routine COVID Tests?
Are you being a good citizen by getting tested regularly, or being overcautious and gumming up the works?
Democrats Are Making the Amy Coney Barrett Hearings All About Healthcare
The Supreme Court is set to hear yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Act on November 10, just one week after the presidential election on November 3
Some Colleges Are Abruptly Cancelling the Semester After Thanksgiving
At Arizona State, finals week was suddenly moved up, giving students almost no time to study and cramming multiple exams into one day.