In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to a question about how to deal with friends who constantly complain about everything.

Her attempt to plumb the decline of hanging out came from a realisation, pre-Covid, that her and her friends’ social interactions had become incredibly scheduled. Liming found a strange thing ...

In Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, author Shiela Liming tells us why we’ve overlooked the magic of simply spending time with people. Real, in-person time. In the following ...

"I had no life from like 15 to 17 to 18 years old in the summers, like I wouldn't even hang out with my friends," Pinto said. "Like all I worried about was just kind of getting better at hockey.