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"For me, weird is a great compliment, and I think that we should all be at least a little weird and we should all embrace ...

GREETINGS, BRAINY PANTS! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ ...

Dear Eric: I really like my husband, however, when we go to bed at night and are reading next to each other, he is just ...

Casey Means, Donald Trump’s pick to be surgeon general, dropped out of a surgical residency at Oregon Health & Science ...

Lisa Hiton is a poet living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her first book of poems, Afterfeast, was selected by Mary Jo Bang to win the ...

Everybody’s like, ‘I had a weird brother like Kip’ or ‘I had an annoying uncle like Rico.’ There’s a relatability to everyone ...

Lucinda Williams has known strange times before these. When she thinks back to her days as a teenage antiwar activist in late ...

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and U.S. Representative Janelle Bynum (D-OR, 5) answered questions at a town hall at Sisters ...

Lewiston native Mike Dawson etched his name into “Jeopardy!” history when he first appeared on the long-running TV quiz show last spring, albeit in an esoteric way. At 6-foot-7, Dawson is tied with ...

Humanity has a rather unfortunate habit of getting things wrong. Kids figure this out fairly quickly. One day they discover ...

Globe Opinion editor Jim Dao talks to politics reporter James Pindell and Ideas writer Abdallah Fayyad about what the next ...