CULTURA

For generations, women were told they could "have it all." Higher education. A successful career. Financial independence. Marriage. Children. A beautiful home. Community involvement. Personal fulfillment. Yet what many women discovered is that "having it all" often came with the expectation of doing it all. Today's working mother frequently balances professional responsibilities while carrying much of the invisible labor that keeps a household functioning. She remembers docto

The theological effect was immediate and durable. A woman with a claim to independent religious authority became instead a symbol of redeemed sin, forgiven rather than empowered. Historian Susan Haskins called the matter "settled" for nearly fourteen hundred years, and the settlement held remarkably well for something built on a mistake.

Sean Teare serves as the Harris County District Attorney in Houston, a Democrat elected to oversee prosecutions across the county. Before taking office, he spent close to twenty years in law enforcement, including more than a decade teaching cadets at the Houston Police Department Academy. That background now places him at the center of two competing investigations into a federal agency operating largely outside his jurisdiction. He told CBS News this week the vehicle-stop ta

Operation Slowdown returns to Texas roads from July 18 through August 2. The Rio Grande Valley will see additional state troopers and local patrol units on the road during this period, along with expanded radar enforcement. TxDOT partners with law enforcement agencies across Texas to increase speed limit enforcement during this two-week window. Officers will spend extra time on the roads and issue citations to drivers who exceed posted limits. Local agencies access this enfor

In 2007, the Ministry of Education slipped a new word into the official Chinese lexicon, sheng nu, meaning leftover women, borrowing a character from the vocabulary of expired food. Officials wanted earlier marriages. They got a national vocabulary problem instead. China's one-child policy left the country with roughly 30 million more men than women of marriage age. Among the specific cohort born during the one-child-policy years, Dongguan shows the widest gap in the country,

Your Brain Treats Your Ex Like a Bag of Chips Nobody wants to hear that a two a.m. ex spiral runs on the same neurochemical wiring as a Doritos binge, but it does, and understanding that turns the habit from a moral failure into a pattern with an off-ramp. Someone spirals into thinking about an ex the same way someone else opens the pantry at midnight, restless and unfocused, chasing a specific hit of familiar comfort. The urge shows up when loneliness gets loud or when an or

Odds Increase Again for Historic Super El Niño by Fall El Niño behaves like a temperamental child, and the tantrums cross oceans, hitting every continent downstream. The name comes from Spanish-speaking fishermen who noticed warm currents arriving each year near Christmas and called the pattern for the Christ child, a reference for a system with the power to upend weather across the world. When El Niño escalates, the disruption escalates alongside, and this year's version sta

Examining Sexual Assault in Greek Mythology and Its Teaching Today Words like "narcissism," "tantalizing," "chaotic," and "herculean" all come from Greek mythology, embedded so deeply in everyday language that most people use them without ever thinking about their origin. Greek mythology has shaped Western vocabulary, explained natural phenomena before science existed to do it, and is the foundation for centuries of art, literature, and education across an entire civilization

The Guy on the Chiefs, Coming Straight Home to Her Taylor Swift has been singing about meeting the right guy since she was a teenager writing songs in her bedroom. Every album had a version of him tucked into the lyrics, a guy who showed up late, loved football, or made her feel like the ending finally made sense. She didn't know his name yet. On July 8, 2023, Kelce attended Swift's Eras Tour show at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes had invite

The one bedroom assignment women either volunteer for... or would rather outsource.

Amazon introduced the Echo speaker, and the voice behind it, Alexa, on November 6, 2014, then opened the device to the public the following July. A little more than a decade later, roughly one in four Americans owns one, and a good share of those households own two or three. Kids in these homes grow up talking to Alexa the way they talk to a sibling, tossing out orders and insults without much thought. A child who feels close to the family's Alexa grows more demanding toward

The Reagans Built the Modern Political Con That Handed Donald Trump the Presidency Ronald Reagan's parents were Democrats in a Republican-leaning part of Illinois, Dixon, a small river town in Lee County where the Reagan family settled in December 1920, when Reagan was nine. Jack and Nelle Reagan's Democratic loyalty ran deeper than just voting. Jack Reagan had a grade-school education and worked as a shoe salesman, and after FDR's 1932 election, he was rewarded for his Democ

Ashley stood in a Walmart parking lot in Nebraska and cried into her phone camera. She had been making cake pops for a couple of weeks. A full-time job kept her days busy, so the baking happened on the side, the kind of hobby that turns into a small business one Fruity Pebbles cake pop at a time. Then a bigger creator, Kaity of Cakes by Kaity, accused her of stealing a recipe and threatened legal action. "She's fucking made a whole video about me threatening to sue me," Ashle

A man who has not set foot in Hidalgo County voluntarily in thirteen years is finally coming back, and not by choice. Omar Guerrero, 49, was arrested in Mexico on Tuesday and is now in U.S. custody, according to a news release from the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office. District Attorney Toribio "Terry" Palacios said Wednesday that Guerrero will be back in the county within two days, the result of a joint effort between the DA's office, the sheriff's office, the U.S. Marshals,

I was looking for a book and found a newspaper article by R. Daniel Cavazos, editor of The Monitor, called "Starr: diamond in the rough," written sometime around 1994, mas o menos. A Rio Grande City businessman, Lauro Lopez, gets quoted in it, joking that the new Wal-Mart and H-E-B "SOO-PER" centers were coming because of trade with Mexico, not drugs. Decades later, Rio Grande City still has its Walmart and HEB, along with a Marshalls, a Ross, a Chick-fil-A and three differen

Pop psychology has found a new favorite scapegoat, and dad no longer holds the title. For years, "daddy issues" served as the all-purpose explanation for a woman's relationship problems, her attachment style, her taste in unavailable men. A newer contender has entered the discourse now, the mother wound, framed as far deeper and more spiritually loaded. Daddy issues counted as the easy diagnosis. The mother wound counts as the real excavation. The mother wound theory circulat

Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Mutilated Currency Division A cat once met a $100 bill at the wrong end of its claws, shredded it into confetti, and turned what should have been a minor household disaster into a six-month federal investigation. The owner gathered every scrap, mailed them to Washington, and wrote a full account of the cat's crime for government examiners who take animal-versus-currency disputes more seriously than most people would expect. Half a year later

Obama Presidential Center Chicago's South Side hosted the grand opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday, an event landing on the eve of Juneteenth weekend. The livestream began at noon Eastern time, broadcasting the proceedings to anyone with an internet connection and a passing interest in presidential pageantry. The event brought together politicians, A-list celebrities, athletes, and other internationally known figures, with three former presidents jo

Japan's men's national football team failed to win its World Cup opener against the Netherlands on June 14. The match ended in a 2-2 draw. The headline that traveled faster than the highlight reel involved garbage bags. Footage of Japanese fans staying behind in the stands after the match to collect trash instead of rushing out to celebrate spread across social media within hours. American commentators praised the gesture. Many people watching the cleanup unfold in Arlington,

Her name is Mar Castro A young woman in a cropped white Carta Blanca shirt holds the FIFA World Cup trophy with both hands, brown curls falling loose around her face, the crowd at Estadio Azteca blurred behind her. She is grinning. She is in her early twenties. Forty years later, the image still moves through social media feeds the same way it moved through television sets in 1986. Her name is Mar Castro. Everyone called her La Chiquitibum. She appeared in a Carta Blanca beer