How to Restore Your Old Wood Furniture

So far in our D.I.Y. series, we’ve hung things on walls, patched the holes we’ve made, and fixed squeaky floors. It’s time to have a little fun. This month, we’ll bring some old furniture back to life. You probably have a piece of furniture that’s in need of a little T.L.C. — a family heirloom,…

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Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country. On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the…

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What (Actually) Brings Teens Joy?

Headlines trumpet an alarming trend: American teenagers are in the midst of a crisis. Their rates of anxiety and depression have been rising for years. And many of the factors contributing to this unhappiness — the psychological toll of the Covid-19 pandemic, school-shooting drills, climate change, social media — are ongoing. Amid all this gloom,…

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