It’s the time of year when we celebrate mothers and — about a month later — fathers. But the way we view each holiday reveals a lot about the growing gap between cultural gender stereotypes and the reality of most families’ day-to-day lives. How do we celebrate Mother’s Day? Well, it’s ...

Fellow Mama Mia! haters, I understand how much you might fear Love is All You Need. On the surface there are so many similarities: the setting a destination wedding in the Mediterranean (in this case, Italy’s Amalfi Coast rather than a Greek island), a quirky mother of the bride and ...

Once a year, acrossthefader.org puts the spotlight on fifty great websites — focusing mostly on new ones and older ones which are great, but not household names. We’re about to do it again. The list is full of sites which we, editors use and love. But we’re always on the hunt ...

Studies have linked porn consumption to sexual aggression, problems with intimate relationships and losing one’s virginity at an earlier age. But the influence of sexually explicit material on some risky behaviors may be more modest than previously thought. In a new study from the Journal of Sexual Medicine, four researchers argue ...

Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, with its bracingly Nietzschean title — Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead — and its stupendously accomplished young author, represents the leading edge of contemporary American feminism. It’s a school of thought that devolves from a simple and stark truth: while women have ...

Wisdom may come with age, but does happiness follow suit? Some studies show that the elderly may be more prone to depression and loneliness, which can lead to higher rates of unhappiness, not a surprise given the health and emotional challenges that tend to accompany aging. But increasing, more and more ...

Alice, a marketing executive in her 40s, has been a member on and off of the Jewish dating site JDate.com for years; at her count, she’s now been on more than a hundred dates with men from the greater Dallas region. But the more she lingers on these sites, she ...

Closeness in a relationship doesn’t necessarily follow the more-is-better approach. A new study shows it doesn’t matter how ‘close’ you and your partner are to make your hearts flutter. What matters is that you’re as close as you want to be, even if that means you’re not very close at all. In ...

A long time ago, I didn’t know I was a hebe. I was born Jewish and raised Jewish, but hebe? Never heard of it. That was mostly a function of geography. I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families—where the Levys and ...

In what must be the most jaw-dropping sports story to emerge in a week of jaw-dropping sports stories (hello, OprahLance!), it emerges that star Notre Dame footballer Manti Te’o had a girlfriend who never existed. That would not be much of a tale—who hasn’t had at least one fake dalliance?— ...