I'm a free woman now and I'm dating up a storm. Why is everybody so nervous?

I succumbed to my embarrassing addiction to writers' self-help books and wound up with a dog and a purple fountain pen.

"Ophelia Speaks," a book by teens for teens, talks back to adults who think they know what's up. This teen says it doesn't speak to her.

Summertime and the living would be easy -- if women didn't have to shave or wax constantly.

What would happen when people lacking any semblance of ideological or moral convictions rise to power?

How the Army is training 14-year-olds to <3 miltarism

Stefanie Martini fails to be stirring as a youthful, profoundly plain Jane Tennison

The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.

You can see the designer's path to destruction in his kleptocratic chic -- and the ruinous culture that spawned him

Our advice man holds forth on how to get a date before we all die, husbands who chew their tongues, how to put the thrill back in a marriage and why kissing is "yucky."

Xanax can very easily become addictive, and I'm one of the lucky ones —  even if I'm still fleeing my demons

Salon breaks down the dynamics of the strongest love triangles and why we care so much about them

Salon talks to Darnell Moore about his new memoir, existential freedom and the power of "radical black love"

One creationist activist points to bags of molecules, while The Blaze somehow argues progressives made Josh do it

"Wrecking Ball" made me drool, no matter what my kids and husband thought. I was a sexed-up Madonna fan once more