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In the 1990s, LaCroix was the favorite drink of Midwestern moms. How did it get so cool?

Here’s what happens when a man walks around with his infant son during the work day.

Paul Raeburn’s book, Do Fathers Matter?, is a comprehensive review of studies on the role of fathers.

A high-risk stem cell treatment stopped or reversed the disease in a small study of multiple sclerosis patients.

Making television is a fast-paced, involved, and deeply collaborative process. We spent five months on the set of FX spy drama The Americans learning how it all works.

The Coexist logo is about getting along — but it started a legal war.

The possibility of drug abuse, overdose, and diversion is the backdrop to every conversation I have with a patient about opioids.

Do I want to be the face of gentrification? Not particularly. Am I cool with being the butt of a joke? Totally. Remember: When you do stock photography, anyone can control your narrative.

Despite a formal end to the American war in Vietnam in 1975, hundreds of thousands of people have suffered — and continue to suffer — as a result of the invasion.

Game of Thrones kicked off an age of cheap deaths. Here’s how it can be fixed.

“The same kid who had sat next to the first lady as an example of how anybody could beat the odds and attend college was no longer even in college. I felt like a fraud.”

Unlike women’s reproductive clinics, most crisis pregnancy centers are not medical facilities, and apart from providing free pregnancy tests and possibly limited sonograms, they do not offer medical assistance.

Their concerns went far beyond any superficial analogy between a TV show and a campus where rapists attended classes with their victims.

The average student debt load is nearly $30,000. Mine was just $4,000. Here’s how I did it.

“When you look at the history of any successful movement, it’s always been a partnership.”

I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can’t “see” my father’s face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on 10 minutes ago. I’m 30 years old, and I never knew a human could do any of this.

For five years in a row, 40 percent or more of the American public has identified as “independent.” But identifying as an independent doesn’t mean much when there are few independents with a chance of winning on the general election ballot.

An interview with the creator of Planet Earth about his new series, Rise of the Animals.

Our screens give us carte blanche to be shittier to each other than we’d ever be in real life.

I’m not ashamed of having bipolar disorder, but I don’t want to go out of my way to tell people. I worry. Will this person not want to work with me anymore? Will they treat me differently? Will they think I’m unreliable?

Men have always been able to “have it all.” Here’s why I still don’t want kids.

Prince tried to help us understand the differences between identity, behavior, and perception. Prince dismantled and queered what contemporary culture has tried to bracket.

Boundaries didn’t matter much to the rocker who always pushed the edge.

Normally, I’m not much of a baseball fan. But as I watched the game, suddenly I found it fascinating. The way the players swung at the ball! The speed of each ball posted — 95 miles an hour! So fast! Why hadn’t I watched this amazing game before?

I get it — history can be boring. But the laziest use of it is to make facile comparisons between then and now, this person and that.

It’s been 20 years since my mother died of early onset, or younger onset, Alzheimer’s disease. She was 53. I was 17. Losing her — and realizing that I, too, could develop the disease — has haunted me ever since.

Algorithms don’t create our Facebook echo chambers — we do.

We tried to comfort them, explaining how our owner had ensured that our collection would soon be available at the public library — for free, even! It didn’t help much. Almost to a man they had the same reply: “But you won’t be there to help us.”

I often find myself thinking, “Man, this whole thing would be so much easier if you just knew a little more about anxiety.”

Between 2010 and 2013, the FBI prosecuted only 10 cyberstalking cases out of an estimated 2.5 million.

“How are all black men not crazy at this point? How have they not been driven insane by racism?”

From the grave, I hear my mother, God rest her soul: “Merrick is going to be on the Supreme Court; what are you doing now?” I always had a response to her comparison questions. Now, frankly, I do not.

Anything less than chronic pain can be pushed through, fought with, massaged, foam-rolled out of the body, or very simply ignored. Can we really be surprised that this instinct spills into other corners of our lives?

After last June’s marriage equality ruling, several major LGBTQ rights groups declared victory and shut down. But queer activists can’t afford to get complacent.

My first Republican National Convention was in 1952. This year, the party may finally fall apart.

Psychiatric hospitals are legally obligated to treat suicidal patients — even if the patient’s funding runs dry — for as long as it takes for the patient to stabilize. But many don’t, and the consequences can be lethal.

A nurse gave an infant a fatal overdose of medication. Seven months later she killed herself. Could either death have been prevented?

The 2016 election is looking increasingly like a refutation of one of the more provocative and influential political science theories of the past 30 years: that on or about November 9, 1989, History, with a capital H, ended.