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When Caring for a Friend Turns Into Carrying the Whole Load
Dear Annie®, Dec. 21, 2025
Dear Annie: I have a friend, "Marcy," whom I've known for about six years through a mutual group of acquaintances. She was very kind when my mother was alive, often coming over to help, and she has also helped with my ki...
Beware of This Big Bad Beau
Dear Annie®, Dec. 20, 2025
Dear Annie: In 1996, I met a man while traveling. At the time, I was a single mom of three in a new city and state away from family. I was struggling with finances, child care and transportation. My family and I weren't ...
Merry Christmas, Except for the Hungry, Poor and Sick
Stephanie Hayes, Dec. 20, 2025
The holidays always bear a certain layer of heaviness. That's why so many people try to tap into their best selves this time of year, donating gifts, opening their homes to wayward friends. But no small acts of kindness ...

Political Opinion

Daily Editorials

Opinion

Walz, Omar and the Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Scandal

Dec. 22, 2025

Daily Editorials

Opinion

Coming for Your Credit Card From Left and Right

Dec. 22, 2025

Susan Estrich

Liberal

Transgender Teens

Dec. 20, 2025

Georgia Garvey

Opinion

The Happy-Enough Holiday Is More Than Good Enough

Dec. 20, 2025

Q: I have a nine-pound cat named Beauty and a five-pound Chihuahua named Beast. Is it OK for me to apply half of Beast's monthly flea and tick preventive to his skin and the other half to Beauty's skin? That way, I could cut my monthly cost for flea/tick prevention in half.

Single File®

Advice

Lifestyle Questions From the Survey (Part 3)

Dec. 24, 2025

These are responses from the largest population represented in the survey, single parents whose children were at home. Confession: The issues in this section are intricate (and numerous) because of my own years as a single mom.

Horoscopes by Holiday

Horoscopes

On a Squared Solstice

Dec. 21, 2025

The 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz wrote, "The sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.'" On the solstice, that generosity is our model.

Horoscopes by Holiday, Weekly

Horoscopes

Squared Solstice

Dec. 21, 2025

On a winter solstice boasting three cosmic squares, the fates offer games instead of treats, challenges instead of comforts, tests instead of tickets to ride.