It is an ordinary day. Somehow tears pool at the bottom of your eyes, threatening to spill out the canthus any moment. How ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. My house contains a vaguely defined room—a parlor-like space that was created by a renovation decades ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers dropped a 28-23 decision at home to the New England Patriots on Sunday in a battle of first-place teams. The game essentially came down to a failed fourth-down attempt just ...

A few years ago, Jenny Martin started taking brief “thinking walks.” The habit was partly born of necessity—she has two young kids, a busy therapy practice, and a brain that doesn't easily quiet ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Daily showering has been treated as non‑negotiable. But according to doctors, that routine may quietly work against us as ...

Female ballet dancer dancing with pointes in the street with a long red dress, in the street of Lyon, France. The first time I went to a ballet alone, I worried I’d remember the aloneness of the ...

Imagine you were one of the curious few who, in the summer of 2010, dipped a financial toe in the waters of bitcoin by paying, say, $20 for roughly 250 of the digital coins using Mt. Gox, one of the ...

Investors are growing concerned that a downturn could be looming. History shows, however, that there's no such thing as a bad time to invest. The right strategy can help you build long-term wealth, no ...

Right now, criminal and state-sponsored hackers are intercepting and storing encrypted data they cannot yet decode. Likely targets include everything from corporate secrets and medical records to ...

What I Like About You is finally streaming on Netflix — but the theme song will sound a little different. The hit WB sitcom, which aired from 2002 to 2004, followed the lives of two sisters living ...

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) on Thursday questioned why Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would be banned from polling places ahead of midterm elections. “Why should you ban ICE from being at ...

If it’s been several years since you last bought a car, it might be shocking to see how much the landscape has shifted. To start, the cost of buying a new vehicle skyrocketed during the early years of ...