Allen Park — Sometimes, it's best to simply take what the defense gives you. Other times, you need to dictate the terms of engagement. How do you decide which approach to take? That's the conundrum ...

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When Nancy Pelosi first ran for Congress, she was one of 14 candidates, the front-runner and a target. At the time, Pelosi was little known to San Francisco voters. But she was already a fixture in ...

The Trump administration said that based on “further calculations” it has determined it can provide recipients of low-income food assistance about two-thirds of their usual benefits this month, not ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

There’s no universal safe or danger level. Ideal current ratios vary by industry. A current ratio of 1.0 means the company has $1 in current assets for every $1 in current liabilities. A ratio below 1 ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

You’re at a bar and strike up a conversation with a cute guy. You have so much in common: You were both competitive college athletes, have the same taste in TV and movies, want to try a local hike you ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...