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Dear Prudence, I am happily married, financially stable, and a mom of a beautiful, feral toddler. On a drunken night I convinced myself that I did, in fact, want a sibling for my toddler—quite the 180 from my staunch stance of being “one and done!” I’m now 10 weeks pregnant with my second child and plagued with nausea, vomiting, and most of all regret. Should I terminate this pregnancy and tell all (including my husband) that I miscarried? He, his parents, and my parents are all excited about baby No. 2. I, however, am completely disappointed in myself for having a lapse in judgment a...

Flashback to When We Thought This Would be 2 Weeks of Lockdown It's officially been one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It's also been one year of Disney holding my money hostage- but I digress. One year ago, all of us on the show were pretty optimistic about the pandemic; despite the fact that we had gotten notice that places were closing down and events were being canceled. We had hope, hope that the lockdowns would last two weeks and that we were going to beat this coronavirus! I don't think any of us imagined the chaos that would follow- anti-makser...

Modern Diplomacy Pensées The Primacy of Intellect On matters of United States foreign and defense policy, it is high time to return to Reason.[1] Why a “return?” During his four years as president, Donald J. Trump created an almost seamless web of policy derelictions and corresponding failures. In this humiliating history of calculated Unreason, Trump’s strategic declensions were the result of both witting dissemblance and outright irrationality.[2]                Naturally, some of these evident failures were substantially worse than others. Of special concern today mu...

I. Understanding Analytical Tools for Thinking About the Futures The further one seeks to gaze into the future, the less useful forecast techniques become. The forecast aims at “calculating or predicting (some future event or condition) usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data.” 2 But the distant future is hardly a singular event. Rather, it is a landscape created through a combination of change and continuity, and so there is a high probability of departing from at least some currently dominant trends. Accelerating changes in recent years, including massive i...

Slamdance Films for the Musically-Minded In case Sundance season came and went too quickly—or perhaps just passed you right by, by virtue of it being online this year, providing none of its usual clot of tourism to remind Utahns to get tickets—Slamdance is right on its heels, also virtually this year. The oddball answer to Sundance's austere take on indie returns for its 26th year as a festival for emerging artists, and with options for movie-lovers of all kinds. If it's music-focused stuff you prefer, there are a few great entries to catch. Those going in for the long shows shouldn't mis...