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Gabfest Reads: You Can’t Force a Happy Ending

In Also a Poet, Ada Calhoun reckons with her relationship with her distant father.

Help! My Ex-Wife’s Family Is Asking a Very, Very Personal Favor of Me.

I want to help, but not in this way.

Really, What’s So Bad About Keeping My Son in Aftercare Longer? My Wife and I Just Don’t Agree.

Parenting advice on afterschool care, divorce, and pregnancy.

Why The Rehearsal’s Editing Is So Important to the Final Product

Editor Stacy Moon explains how she helped craft one of the show’s most awkward episodes.

Spielberg Wants to Sell His New Movie as His Most Personal Work Ever. That Might Be Tough.

The Fabelmans is an autobiographical coming-of-age movie that feels oddly distant.

Apple, Android, and 21st-Century Borders

Plus, stories from the recent past of Future Tense.

Help! I Promised to Help a Friend Running for Office. Uh, I Just Found Out We Have Very Different Views.

I have no idea what to do at this point.

What if a Peasant From the Middle Ages Got a Fancy Influencer Account? I Have Good News for You.

The TikTok account GreedyPeasant is an exercise in queer imagination.

Lindsey Graham Goes Rogue

The senator was way off-message with his abortion bill heading into the midterms.

Where AI Art Can Go Wrong

Rachelle asks a tech reporter what’s up with AI art and other burning questions.