In 1987, what started as a simple gathering of moms in a quiet Houston neighborhood turned into a decades-long tradition that would touch the lives of countless people. It began with boxed wine and ...

Loneliness can creep into anyone’s life, and dogs have a remarkable way of filling those empty spaces. Some breeds–in ...

How serious of an issue is loneliness today? Social media platforms have amassed more than 5 billion global users, according to Kepios, which tracks global digital trends. Those users’ combined daily ...

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. In the summer of 2018, I ...

Will Champion was 24 and working at a board game café on New York's Upper West Side in 2021 when he and his friends decided to turn their Dungeons & Dragons hobby into something bigger. Champion was ...

The next moment, the boys are wearing boxing gloves and sparring helmets. Craig and Austin square up for a playful bout. Austin lands a jab to Craig’s face, promises he won’t do it again, then does it ...

Non-monogamy has entered popular consciousness in recent years, with terms like open relationship and polyamory becoming more visible online. But what about relationship anarchy? Relationship anarchy ...

Mark Zuckerberg is right that our nation is beset by an epidemic of loneliness. People of every age now too often find themselves isolated from family, with too few friends and little to keep them ...

This post is part two of a series. In part one of this series, I spoke about loneliness in the context of a friendship — when we're lonely inside a relationship and even inside a "friendship." I ...

Earlier this year, Forbes.com released a report about concerns for many young adults who are having parasocial relationships with anthropomorphized AI. Anthropomorphized AI includes chatbots that give ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

It’s the night before Valentine’s Day. Don’t get sad; head to the Love Rx show at the Respectable Street Café (518 Clematis St.) in West Palm Beach. The girls of the Modernesque Burlesque troop — Ms.