The major question for federal, state and local elected officials — as well as parents across the country and teachers everywhere — is whether or not their local K-12 school districts will reopen for in-person instruction in the fall, amid the raging pandemic, rising cases nationwide, and an uncontrolled spread of COVID-19. For many parents, who have spent the past few months trying, and reasonably failing, to do two jobs at once, the possibility of school doors opening again and kids entering those doors, away from home, for 8 hours a day feels like a necessity....

“If cannabis is ever passed in Texas, chances are good that grocery stores will be selling that too,” John Mackey said at a talk hosted by The Texas Tribune when asked if Whole Foods would start selling “alternative” products. “You just never know what happens over time with markets. They change and evolve.” The same audience member who posed the original question then followed up by asking Mackey what specific cannabis products customers could expect first (“bugs or pot brownies?...

It’s rare for a franchise to reach its high-point six movies in but, against all odds, Fallout proves that Mission: Impossible is as fresh as it’s ever been, raising the stakes both for the franchise and the action genre as a whole. It has been 22 years since Ethan Hunt first burst into theaters with his trademark blend of high stakes espionage and heart-stopping action. And while most series would have grown stale long ago and been forgotten, Mission: Impossible is arguably bigger than it’s ever been....

“I’m only partially into my 30s, I can see that this will be the most demanding decade yet,” he laughs. “I’m trying to set up the rest of my life, not just for myself, but for my little family.” Teitelbaum doesn’t sleep much. And he’s far from alone. Doctors or not — hell, parents or not — American 30-somethings tend to struggle with the stress of their third decade after the comedown from their mid-20s before stabilizing in their 40s, lightening up in their 50s, and peaking again in their 60s....

But if spoiled children came from France, they made a home in the New World, where parents have been obsessed with moderating indulgence since the Pilgrims began removing kids from their parent’s care in order to ensure they were given more work than love. Consumed by the idea that indulgence could make affection into an engine of corruption, these buckle-shoed religious extremists, set precedent for centuries of hand-wringing about the corruptive powers of comfort and care....

Social scientists commented on it. Ariana Grande referenced it in a music video. My 62-year-old mother called me to talk about it. BDE became a cheerful celebration of a specific type of fearless — if haphazard and poorly planned — masculinity at a time when men are rarely celebrated for displays of swagger. BDE presented a happy solution to the problem of so-called “toxic masculinity” and an understated vision for the future of straight-maleness....

In a new interview, Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo were asked why Cap is able to pick up Mjolnir in Endgame but not in Age of Ultron. What changed between the two films, about nine years of Marvel Cinematic Universe time? Anthony replied: “In our heads, he was able to wield it. He didn’t know that until that moment in Ultron when he tried to pick it up. But Cap’s sense of character and humility and, out of deference to Thor’s ego, Cap, in that moment realizing he can move the hammer, decides not to....

So, when was the last time you yelled? Two or three weeks ago. Who was the focus of your rage? This lady at Target. Care to elaborate? Well, it was the holidays, right? So, people were shopping like crazy. And, every once in a while, you run into those people whom the world just revolves around. This lady was one of those people – at least, she thought so. What’d she do?...

I used to dole out all kinds of dad advice about sleeping and diapers. Now if somebody asks me about parenting, I just talk about time. More importantly, I talk about why dads should waste as much of it as they can with their kids. Admittedly, it’s not a lesson anybody teaches new parents. Nor is it one I learned right away. In fact, it wasn’t until one ‘perfectly planned’ father-son Saturday that it hit me....

“This is really common, and I think a lot of it is being driven by men overstating their value,” Adshade says. “They think ‘I’m married to this women, but if we’re non monogamous or polyamorous I’m going to have a new women every week,’ and it doesn’t work that way.” There’s at least some anecdotal evidence that women in polyamorous communities have more power in their relationships. One notable example involved a man who posted on Reddit about how he convinced his girlfriend of two years to open their relationship, only to discover that she was highly desirable, and he was not....

“If we’re not good at being funny — like if we’re not tall or not making money –we might feel a masculinity threat where we don’t feel like we’re living up to our own internal standards of what we should be as men,” says Thomas Ford, a psychology professor at Western Carolina University. Ford and his research team have found that when men score high on Precarious Manhood Beliefs, an inventory of implicit and rigid understandings about sexuality, or believe their status is at risk, use derogatory jokes to play defense....

We’ve accepted sharing photos of our kids as an everyday occurrence. And most of the time, that isn’t a problem. About 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook alone every single day. The photo of your kid’s first day at school will almost certainly get lost in the shuffle. But while sharing photos of kids is easy and commonplace, there’s a lot going on under the surface. Sharing pictures of kids exposes them to the world — including parts of the world parents may want to protect them from....

I turned around to find Agnes holding a skull. How many times have I found this little girl raising the brain case of a dead animal for my inspection? Such a happy life. I smiled, caching the image along with countless others in the back of my head. This wilderness scene was different, though. As I catalogued the sloping maw of the skull — a predator, smaller than a coyote, larger than a bobcat — I heard a giant sound....

Let me ask you this – why is Woody Leader for Life of Andy’s toys? He’s voiced by Tom Hanks, so we assume he knows what he’s doing, but does he? Given the trauma the toys have gone through over the course of three movies you could argue he’s actually kind of terrible at his job. How many life-threatening “adventures” can Woody drag the group into before they give Mrs....

The policy seems to follow suit from a February plan by YouTube to no longer allow users to leave comments under videos featuring children, after a report revealed that pedophiles on YouTube were leaving comments with timestamps of the videos which featured kids in suggestive positions or when their skin was exposed. Other comments linked to unsearchable YouTube videos of pedophilic content or linked to WhatsApp groups. Many of those videos, although innocent when posted, were exploited for adult gain....

But Marley also got serious, in a sense, when the musician, 51, carved out time to record and release an album, More Family Time, with an assist from Tom Morello (whose kids go to the same school as Marley’s), Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, and Alanis Morissette. The end result is joyous and uplifting and pretty much the perfect antidote to the relentlessly grim news cycle we’re all living in now....

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More than 20 years after its debut, 1995’s A Goofy Movie has been largely forgotten, and if you do remember it, it might just be for that bitchin’ soundtracks. (Just try to get the song “Eye to Eye” out of your head.) But the movie itself is actually excellent, and that’s because it’s all about reconciliation and estrangement. But rather than vilify any of the individual Goofs, A Goofy Movie allows the audience to understand and connect with both father and son....

Days after I saw the movie, I carried my plastic lunch tray across the cafeteria and told my friend Scott about the curious motion picture called Basic Instinct. We drank our chocolate milk as I shared the story of a San Francisco novelist who — in addition kissing other women and snorting coke — was probably also a serial killer and definitely didn’t wear any underwear. I couldn’t tell if he was jealous, but he was definitely interested....

After a ponderous opening episode, Falcon and Winter Soldier ended with a big twist that is going to rock Sam’s world. Here’s what it means and why this twist has roots in the long history of Marvel comics, specifically a storyline from 1987. Spoilers ahead for the very end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, episode 1. Like most of WandaVision, the first moments of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier essentially pick-up right after Avengers: Endgame....