How to Identify and Fight a Coup
Not all governments or state institutions are immune to an overthrow of power. In November 2017, the people of Zimbabwe woke up to news that their country’s military had seized control of state media...
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How to Recycle Your Campaign Yard Signs
Photo: Trong Nguyen (Shutterstock) The election is (mostly) over, and it’s time to take down those campaign yard signs. While you definitely shouldn’t toss a stack of signs straight in the trash, you also...
How to Maintain a Friendship Through Life Changes
Photo: santypan (Shutterstock) While it’s definitely possible to make friends in adulthood, most of us still have a handful of friends we met either as children, in high school or college, or as young...
How to Deal With a Friend Involved in a Pyramid Scheme
Photo: Jirsak (Shutterstock) Your phone buzzes, letting you know about a new message, and you glance down to see a notification from a friend from high school. It’s been ages since you’ve heard from...
Is Text-Based Therapy Effective?
Living with mental illness looks different for everyone, but for many people, there are periods of time when your anxiety and/or depression symptoms are worse than others. One minute I’ll be typing away feeling...
Who Is Guy Fawkes? A Brief History of Guy Fawkes Day
Today, the fifth of November, is Britain’s Guy Fawkes Day—a national holiday that memorializes a revolutionary group’s plot to blow up Parliament and bring down the government. It’s fitting, honestly, that this celebration falls...
The Best Cheeses to Eat If You’re Lactose Intolerant
Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images) If you’re lactose-intolerant you might think you’ve been cursed to a life without cheese, but not all cheeses contain high levels of that problematic sugar. To see which cheeses...
How to Watch the 2020 Election Results
Photo: DenisProduction.com (Shutterstock) First of all, you are by no means required to watch the election results come trickling in late into the night. You are not required to watch them at all. After...
How to Minimize Anxiety While Watching Election Coverage
Photo: Trevor Bexon (Shutterstock) Let’s get this out of the way first: It is highly unlikely that we’ll find out the winner of the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday, November 3rd. In 2016, the...
How to Spot Tonight’s Halloween Blue Moon & A Few Planets, Too
Photo: Chockdee Permploysiri (Shutterstock) This year, trick-or-treating probably doesn’t look like you thought it would, and Halloween parties are (hopefully, in the name of public health) cancelled, but there’s still something pretty spectacular going...
