Relationships
Everything we have published on Relationships, newest first. Background, research and plain explanation — not only the headline of the day.
The Chore Is Not the Whole Job
Household fairness is easier to discuss when couples count the noticing, deciding and checking that happen before and after a visible task.
Support Global Voices Spotlight: Protest in democracy
With this spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy.
The Seven Days at Jericho — and What the Ground Underneath Actually Shows
Joshua 6 describes a ritual, not a siege: six silent days, then trumpets and a shout on the seventh. Decades of excavation at the site have not settled when, or even whether, a city fell there to match it.
Why Relationships Fail: The Question Nobody Asks Five Times
Most breakups are not caused by one dramatic betrayal. They are caused by the same small argument, unresolved, on a loop — and a diagnostic habit built for factory floors explains why almost nobody catches it in time.
The 5:1 Relationship Ratio Is Not a Scorecard
The famous rule contains a useful insight about conflict, but science does not support turning every conversation into five compliments for each complaint.
How to be grateful to someone – even when you really don’t want to
Struggling to feel grateful? Try thinking differently about what caused the person’s actions.
‘Heartstopper’ is helping LGBTQ+ fans find hope and community across time and space
Stories about young queer people coming of age and finding love have touched people across age and identity, bringing healing after the AIDS crisis and harsh upbringings.
Why Relationships Fail: It's Rarely the Reason You Think
The complaint that ends a relationship is almost never the reason it ended — here's how to find the one underneath it.
Identity beyond citizenship: What remains when the state refuses to recognise you?
Documents can confirm a legal relationship with a state, but they cannot create or erase a person’s existence, history, family, or sense of belonging.
Brazil opens investigation on Google over its AI’s impact on the journalism industry
Commissioner Diogo Thomson considered that the insertion of generative AI has “significantly altered the dynamics of access, visibility, and monetization of journalistic content in the digital environ
A lot of casual friends, or only a few you’re really close with? New research questions that trade-off
Friendships are integral to human health and well being, yet researchers know very little about how people make friends. A new study investigated what people prioritize for new friendships.