The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announces bill to prohibit "bell-to-bell" student cellphone use at K-12 schools. The proposed ...

One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.

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As population czar, Peng (centre) focused her commission's work on the countryside. The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the ...

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The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between ...