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Getting even can feel thrilling, but it’s worth weighing the cost.
Talking with the psychologists who brought the real science of emotion to the Pixar film.
Bottom line: Wearing it is still good advice.
It’s not how you start investing — it’s why.
The latest in Even Better
My friend wrote a book about friendship. Here’s what we learned about ours.
The case for why we should all be carrying naloxone.
The commodification of an activist concept turned a revitalizing practice into an isolating one.
A practical guide to navigating a fractured support system.
All is not lost if they are dating a complete loser.
Dopamine detoxing, hacking, and fasting: Is any of it real?
Maybe you actually smell fine.
With bird flu affecting multiple dairy farms, unpasteurized products are more dangerous than ever — but some people are reluctant to heed government guidance.
If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?
You can have healthy disagreements with the people in your life.
Your neighborhood watering hole is more important than you think.
Plus, lessons worth learning about financial literacy.
Here’s what’s worrying experts right now about H5N1’s spread among dairy cows — and what isn’t.
Here’s how to understand the difference between everyday anxiety and an anxiety disorder.
The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense.
Seasonal allergies making you miserable? Here’s what you need to know.
A roadmap for PFAS risk, testing, and more.
How a neighborhood project to count squirrels bound me to my wild kin.
The delightful abundance of going vegan.
Nature is for everyone. Here’s how to enjoy it, no matter where you live.
First comes love, then comes … moving in together.
Plus, how to think about building your legacy.
Disease surveillance has so far kept the infection at bay in the US, but the CDC has renewed concerns.
Our obsession with self-improvement is making us miserable.
Why we’re all paying so much more for streaming, and what we can do about it.
There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings.
Some inspiration for tax refund season.
By inhibiting drug development, economic growth, and military recruitment, as well as driving doctors away from the places they’re needed most, bans almost certainly harm you — yes, you.
Don’t move in with your significant other without discussing these things first.
Raising an independent child is about empathy.
How the very rich lose money, overvalue art, buy very expensive life insurance, and somehow profit.
Counteracting the Andrew Tate effect isn’t just the purview of parents and teachers.
Should you hire someone to help? What’s your filing status? And more questions on US taxes, answered.
And other tax questions from Vox readers, answered.
The key is to ease into it.