Mo'Nique, newcomer Gabourey Sidibe and Mariah Carey keep "Precious" from becoming a social tract

Look ma, no ink! By Janelle Brown. The technology industry tries to invent a better book. Will publishers bite?

After Kevin got cancer, all my rage and isolation went onto Twitter. Was I embarrassing myself, or rescuing myself?

We're dumping a lot more plastic in the oceans than we thought, a new study finds -- and it's going to get worse

Before, during and after -- TTers weigh in on what went wrong, and what could have been prevented.

It's time to start thinking about lunchboxes, but they don't need to be new

And, no, it's not just opening the cranberry sauce

A shift from costly recycling to education & waste reduction is happening, even in the most conservative of places

The dowdy, the disabled and the Devil.

Even as their platform calls for an end to special interests, Democratic Party leaders happily imbibe free drinks from fat-cat corporate donors at swank parties.

Hail, Sony! All the top sellers won Grammies again!

"Weeknight cooking sometimes can feel like frenetic treading against the tide of culinary burnout"

They're not easy nor fast, but definitely worth your while

We know that plastic is choking the planet. But it could be killing us, too.

After 11 days of siege, the Israelis have left behind ruins and broken families in the Palestinian city.