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Below, Leanne ten Brinke shares five key insights from her new book, Poisonous People: How to Resist Them and Improve Your Life. Leanne is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where she directs the Truth and Trust ...

You know the expression, "If you want to get something done, ask a working mother?" Surprising as it may seem, the same holds true for cancer patients.Conventional wisdom holds that cancer patients are too sick and fragile to work, at least not to ...

It feels like a "hit-the-brakes" economy, with warning lights flashing everywhere: inflation pressures, AI disruptions, upside-down business models, and a persistent sense that some new market surprise or geopolitical tempest is waiting around the ...

We're in the midst of a child care crisis in America, but when fathers want to take on more childcare to equal their partners' efforts, they are being stymied by their employers. Max, who requested to go by a pseudonym, spent 15 years as a contractor ...

Fox Corporation has announced plans to partner with Kalshi to integrate the prediction market's data across the media giant's various cable networks. Tuesday's announcement follows the rise in popularity of prediction markets, and marks Kalshi's ...

When Kitty got her fourth layoff call, she took it via Bluetooth in her car. She knew the script by then: the sudden 15-minute meeting invite, the HR rep that pops into the call, the platitudes that precede the devastation of being unemployed --

President Donald Trump's threats to destroy "a whole civilization" if Iran does not meet tonight's deadline to reach the end of the war is being met with alarm, triggering a market frenzy, spiking oil prices, and calls across social media for ...

In October 2025, the beloved Minnesota Pizza chain Gina Maria's Pizza abruptly closed its doors. The closure of all four of the nearly 50-year-old chain's locations was a shock to its loyal fans--and since then, many have been left wondering exactly ...

Anthropic said Tuesday that it is sharing a preview version of its upcoming AI model in a new cybersecurity initiative with a coalition of tech companies to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software infrastructure. The Project Glasswing ...

White-collar workers have been at the center of much of the public handwringing over AI. Entry-level jobs in finance and software engineering seem to be on the chopping block. More college graduates are struggling to find work in a challenging job ...