Anna Sale

"I have to keep coming until we've exhausted everything, and we definitely have to shut the door."

The writer and artist talks with me about their childhood in Nigeria, their brief stint in veterinary school, and how, these days, they've deemed themself "worthy of extravagance."

As the USPS finds itself at the center of a political divide, we check in with a mail carrier who wrote to us about being an essential worker at the height of the pandemic. 

A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about love—and how it changed everything.

While spending the pandemic with his 95-year-old father in New Orleans, the actor is thinking hard about family and parenthood. 

Are you going to pay it?

Authors, podcasters and longtime friends Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow on friendship therapists, awkward spa weekends and why the word "bestie" just doesn't cut it. 

"I failed a lot, you know, I made a lot of wrong decisions. I just, I never let my failures end it." 

"My therapist told me that it was okay to be mad at him for dying, whether or not it's rational. Because nothing about this is logical or makes sense." 

The writer joined me live on Zoom to talk student loan debt, luxury CBD drinks, and why he's not going to "pimp out [his] trauma."

A confession is tortured out of a suspect. He goes to prison. Thirty-three years later, he gets a check for what he endured. But forgiveness is not part of the bargain. 

In this collaboration with the podcast Love + Radio, we hear from listeners whose relationships ended right before the pandemic—or because of it. 

Along with the podcast Love + Radio, we've been asking you about how you're coping with a lack of physical touch in your lives due to the pandemic. This is what you told us. 

Two stories on incarceration and coronavirus: an update from Lawrence Bartley, and a woman who wrote to him, worried about her incarcerated husband's safety.

A conversation with Sharron, a certified nursing assistant in Virginia, who we first met in our essential workers episode this spring.

From budgeting blue books to a $60,000 engagement ring: your stories about love and money.

We asked you what you needed to say in this moment of reckoning with police brutality, structural racism, and grief. Here's what you told us. 

As we take in the anguish that's surfacing today, we want to hear from you.

Many of our financial situations have changed drastically in recent months. We're calling on a financial therapist to help us sort through the emotions those shifts are bringing up.

The former secretary of state reflects on re-experiencing a feeling now, in her 80s, that she had in her 20s—after graduating from college and putting her career aside for family.