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The Hosts of Working Share Their New Year’s Resolutions for 2023

Including: Staying in touch with friends, exploring new music, and “shopping your stash.”

Think You’re Pretty Smart? Prove It With This Week’s Quiz.

If you’re not first, you’re last in this week’s trivia quiz.

The Best Reason to Exercise Is Not Weight Loss—or Even Health

In 2023, we’re trying to understand how working out can achieve one incredibly simple goal: feeling good.

Starting Off the New Year Without a Smartphone

Without being too sanctimonious about it.

The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in January

Forrest Gump, Support the Girls, Sorry to Bother You, and The King of Comedy are just a few of the great movies coming to streaming this month.

Benedict Was Never the Pope His Far-Right Fans—or His Critics—Imagined

“God’s Rottweiler” leaves behind a complicated legacy.

How 18-Year-Old Jaylen Smith Became the Country’s Youngest Black Mayor

The 18-year-old mayor of Earle, Arkansas may not have a lot of experience under his belt, but that might be exactly what his city needs.

Why Barbara Walters’ “Rude” Interviews Made for Such Great TV

She lobbed the questions that no one wanted to answer and that no one else could ask.

Help! My Sister Is a Horrible Pet Owner, and Now She Wants to Get Another One.

I’ve already taken in three of her cats—I can’t stand to watch this happen again.

The True Meaning of Roe v Wade

America’s obsession with the abortion law no one could agree on continues.