Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images I remember when I first got my dog Milo. I was convinced that this would be a different dynamic from the one I had experienced living with my parents and their dogs for many years prior. Back then, I was a young child and a teenager. Now, I was an adult...
Tomas Rodriguez/Corbis/Getty Images If you were a certain kind of kid going through the D.A.R.E. program in the ’90s, you very likely lived a good chunk of your childhood believing you were one peer-pressured joint away from a crack addiction and living on the streets. But even after those sensational fears ultimately ebbed (and for...
NoSystem images/E+/Getty Images Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert Kennedy has been vocal in his desire to ban fluoride from public drinking water. As recently as last month, in an interview on Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus, Harris Faulkner asked Kennedy about concerns held by dentists and public health experts that taking added fluoride...
AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images I had this friend who would rarely answer my invitations to get together. Or she’d reach out to say how much she missed me and that she wanted to have lunch. But when I’d respond, asking what days worked for her, that’s where the conversation ended. After the fourth time this happened, I...