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Our 11-year-old daughter, “Lola,” wants to make a significant change to her appearance.

Her mother revealed to her that she is the product of a rape committed by her ex-husband just prior to when she fled from him ...

We finally have the first chart-topping hit by a girl group since Destiny’s Child. It’s not what you might expect.

How close is America to authoritarianism? This documentary about the Russian press feels like the coming attractions.

The justices’ unrelenting abuse of the shadow docket has left lower courts scrambling to figure out what, exactly, is law on ...

Bob Lee’s killing sparked a firestorm of misinformation and radicalization. A new book sheds light on what really happened.

My fiancé and I plan to get married next year. We both come from divorced parents, and every adult in my family has been ...

A curious paradox of one of the most obsessively chronicled relationships in human history is how little the vast majority of ...

According to Donald Trump, Washington, D.C., is a hellscape. It’s ridden with crime driven by “bloodthirsty criminals” and ...

My daughter, “Fiona” is 12 and not a girly girl. She’s not unattractive by any means, just not interested in clothes or ...

In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is ...