Homework for Home Ec meant baking with Mom, and I was fresh out of mothers. But here's a favorite anyone can make

"Let's get physics, y'all!"

Does eating British food require a stiff upper lip? Plus: Harry Potter triumphs over "feminism"; emergency room patients often aren't.

Here’s the real reason the right-wing nut from Texas is able to tell his party where to go

Fathers want to be more involved but often feel sidelined, studies suggest

The phrase "y'all" might not simply be the shortened form of "you all" — but something far more complex

Salon writers and critics on 1999's best films, TV, books and music -- plus the big events of the year in technology and a look at the year in sex

An investigation by a Swedish organization found that the masked attacker was influenced by racists & neo-fascists

A new study illustrates fossil fuel companies' greenwashing agenda

How women describe themselves, and whom they engage romantically with, is changing

Detractors will hate the "American Psycho" author's latest -- but they're misreading his smart, tense brilliance

We're finally talking about stressed, toxic work worlds, but in a way that benefits wealthy, traditional families

My father helped build the bomb, which meant I was embedded in the secretive world of atomic scientists