Konigsberg's first book is The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss.
Ruth Davis Konigsberg is the editor of TIME Ideas and the author of The Truth About Grief. Her stories for the magazine include “Chore Wars” and “The Refusniks,” about cancer patients who refuse treatment. Prior to joining TIME, she was a contributing writer for ELLE, deputy editor at Glamour and a staff editor at New York.
Adults think they’re setting limits but inadvertently teach kids to overuse gadgets
Try as I might, I cannot overlook the fact that he broke the very laws that he was entrusted to uphold as attorney general.
“I decided that what I was trying to say was going to help people,” Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg told TIME’s Nancy Gibbs
TIME Ideas rounds up the most thought-provoking posts on the web
Women don’t make 77 cents to a man’s dollar. They make more like 93 cents, as long as they don’t major in art history
Health & Science
This year’s TED conference showcased kids with extremely mature ideas
Education
Sugata Mitra hopes to transform the future of learning
Middle-earth is strangely devoid of women. So who gave birth to all those hobbits, dwarves and elves?
As Liza Long, author of “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” is critiqued, let’s take a look at our long tradition of blaming moms
Is the term “fiscal cliff” too alarmist? The man who coined it thinks not
