If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater ….

Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fi….

There's the reason that I think that red states don't trust the government. They see it as an instrument of their own marginalization, because they f….

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to t….

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs..

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves..

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely par….

Just as the archetype of the supermom--the woman who can do it all--minimizes the real needs of women, so too the archetype of the"superkid" minimize….

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's ….

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster..

Let's stop insulting each other and really get to know people. I mean, have a few beers and go on a fishing trip, and you will find a friend who won'….

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more ….