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We asked Melissa Kirsch to talk about ways she keeps her spirits up and her day meaningful. For her, it starts with a movie night. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As we remain in quarantine, …

Exercise, new news habits, even dipping your face into an icy plunge pool are among the steps you can take for a mellower new year. By Till Lauer For many of us, 2020 was an exceptionally stressful year, dominated by fears about the coronavirus pandemic. Even with the vaccine on …

I’ve never been all that experimental with my hair. I did make one deeply misguided box dye attempt in high school, which turned out exactly as you might expect. Still, over the course of the past few years—adequately distanced from the “beauty choices” of my youth and approaching an entirely …

Let’s roll back the clock to late 2001 and 2002. I was gearing up to graduate from college in that period and the economy was in the midst of a serious recession. Jobs were scarce, and I was lucky enough to lean on a couple of wonderful mentors who helped …

The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed our economy. The U.S. has approved $ 3 trillion in pandemic-related relief, more than 22 million Americans are applying for unemployment, and 7.5 million small businesses are at risk of closing. At some point, we will all be financially impacted by the economic ripple …

“Millennials already contended with graduating into one of the worst recessions in history and now, a little over ten years later, it feels like we’re getting punched in the teeth again,” says “Broke Millennial” Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together. Lowry …