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iPads on Planes: Be Careful What You Wish For
So are you guilty? Like thousands of others, have you snuck an extra text, Tweet or talk after flight attendants decreed you shut off all electronic devices? Or did you continue playing Words With Friends, like Alec Baldwin? No …
The Pope Is No Radical
Francis isn’t throwing Catholics under the Popemobile. He’s calling for new ways of spreading the Church’s teachings
We Need to Worry About Somali Terrorists in the U.S.
A cadre of young Somali-American men are getting indoctrinated in the belief that it’s okay to attack people who disagree with you
The Real Source of Heroic Behavior
We tend to think of heroes as larger-than-life figures who accomplish physical feats, such as the man who pulled two women trapped in a car from the Colorado floods, or the policeman who rescued a woman and her two children from the mall under fire in Nairobi. And those rescuers are indeed heroic, but we should also be thinking about
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The Drama of the Anxious Child
Childhood anxiety is on the rise at every level, from fear of monsters under the bed to severe anxiety disorders
What the Ted Cruz Spectacle is All About
The would-be presidential candidate is cementing his leadership by telling his political base exactly what it wants to hear.
I Won’t Be Banning Porn For My Son
Eleven is the average age that kids view pornography. Sometimes it happens inadvertently via a mistakenly unfiltered search term. Or it occurs over at so-and-so’s house whose parents aren’t so savvy with Google filters
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The World’s Emerging Democracies Don’t Like Us Either
Suspicions of American intentions in Brazil and elsewhere run deep after revelations about NSA data-gathering in those countries
Co-Sleeping Collides With Custody Battles
What happens when attachment parenting comes before a family court judge?
Motherhood Gave Me a Nervous Breakdown
When does the “work-life balance” debate turn into a public-health crisis?
What Pope Francis Thinks About Women in the Church
Will he give them real leadership roles or just continue to placate them by idealizing their gender?
There Is No Such Thing as the ‘Traditional Male Breadwinner’
If we’re ever going to fix our problems accommodating both work and family in our lives, we have to stop thinking that the dilemmas we face today stem from the collapse of the traditional male-breadwinner family. There is no such …