READING, Pa. - A fatal stabbing that took the life of a Reading teen earlier this month has been ruled justifiable self-defense. On the evening of June 6, Reading Police were dispatched to 10th and ...

We want to hear from high school teachers and college professors who assign writing. By Dana Goldstein For decades, American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a ...

In honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we are launching a youth-led campaign across Marin County called “Love Your Body Week.” Eating disorders affect an estimated 30 million people in ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...

After three decades of desperately searching through 200 self-help books for the secret to fix my broken life, I discovered the most profound truth was that I was never broken in the first place.

Think back to the great loves of your life, and you may remember a heady period when every day seemed to glitter with new possibilities. It was as if you had been reborn and were viewing yourself and ...

Ms. Abdelhamid is the author of the forthcoming “Get Home Safe: A Guide to Self-Defense and Building Our Collective Power.” Feb. 12, 2026 I’ve taught self-defense for nearly 17 years, across Queens ...

On November 21, 2020, a young woman in Brooklyn named Tanya Bush began to keep a diary of sorts. On Instagram, under the handle @will.this.make.me.happy, she posted a photo of a craggy yellow pastry ...

It’s hard to avoid mentions of self-love these days. Social media inundates us with jargon about achieving self-love by knowing our attachment styles and “re-parenting ourselves,” while assessing ...

Our students are coming of age in a world that demands global competency. From economic interdependence to the accelerating effects of climate change and mass migration, students need to develop the ...

At a time when productivity means optimizing every second and screens blur the line between work and home, some people are slowing down and disconnecting by looking to communication devices from the ...

Widely circulated clips show Kai diving into self-help books and reading them aloud with a 20-minute timer set. He doesn’t pronounce everything correctly, and he takes breaks to look up words he doesn ...