quote [ Cláudio Silva reflects on moving from Angola to the United States as a child, founding Angola's largest food and travel platform, and what the country�??s current flourishing means not just for Angolans but for the world. ]

quote [ As we celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility in 2025, I want to take a moment to highlight a painful reality that often goes unnoticed�??the horrific situation of transgender individuals who flee their home countries seeking safety, only to find themselves trapped in yet another cycle of persecution and neglect. ]

quote [ What happens to the self when surgery is embraced for the purpose of political conformity, consciously or otherwise? ]

quote [ The story of the guy who nearly drowned on his way to inventing a fundamental fastening device you�??ve probably already used today. ]

quote [ I remember the first time I heard the phrase �??third place,�?� meaning a place humans go to be human at each other which is neither home nor work. The loss of such places has been a subject of great distress, handwringing, and much scapegoating for most of my adult life, even before such places were really lost at all.

I heard the phrase first in 2001, but it was only coined in 1989, by a sociologist named Ray Oldenburg. ]

quote [ Behavioral scientists applaud a quiet yet theatrical shift in societal thinking. ]

quote [ All of which is to say: it was a gross time. ]

quote [ Margarete Sch�tte-Lihotzky left an indelible mark on Austria, architecture, and how we cook. ]

quote [ Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing. ]

quote [ Thanks to soaring housing costs, a generation of twentysomethings are still in their childhood bedrooms. A portrait of family life with no empty nest. ]