Saturday Night Live is being called out by a Tourette syndrome advocacy group due to a controversial skit that was responsive to a racial slur incident at the BAFTAs.

The loss is real even without a name for it. The grief is valid even without a cause anyone else would point to. And the ...

Zodiac signs and horoscopes on 2/28/2026 for Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, ...

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Set out on an adventure that offers romance, intrigue, insight and opportunity. It’s time to build, to conquer and to revel in using your attributes to muster up the ...

Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee’s “Because of a Shoe” and Beatrice Alemagna’s “Her Muddy Majesty of Muck” address children’s anger with compassion.

Letter writer worries about being “too critical” of partner’s eagerness to help strangers, who sometimes get visibly annoyed.

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is "a more astounding miracle than walking on water." The word she used for meeting the ...

Conservative and far-right commentators and social media users have criticized the decision by Canadian police to respect the Tumbler Ridge’s shooter’s trans identity. After initially saying they knew ...

Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. The 20th-century French philosopher Simone ...

THERE is still time for the cheerful and the gloomy to disagree, sincerely, about the net impact on employment from automation and artificial intelligence. Perhaps AI will unleash a job-creating ...

Anyone who works in a “helping profession” can experience compassion fatigue — physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, even first responders. Every specialty is vulnerable, from palliative ...

Ever since I was introduced to mindfulness, I have contemplated the image of the monk spending his days meditating in a cave deep in the foothills of the Himalayas. It seems like enlightenment might ...