Pamela Paul

“Conclave,” an Oscar-bound movie set in the Vatican, promised to whisk me off far and away. Not exactly.

If early exit polls hold, Harris' advantage with women may have been narrower than Joe Biden's in 2020

Perhaps as a threat of what's to come, on Friday, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump recirculated a video statement on the social platform X that he made last year on transgender issues. In it, he pledges to stop federal backing for programs that support the concept of gender transition at any age and to ban gender-affirming care for minors. Any hospital that performs gender surgery on young people would be ejected from Medicare and Medicaid. He would cut federal funds to schools that tell children “they could be trapped in the wrong body,” and get a law that bars “men from participating in women's sports.”

At times of upheaval, people turn to comfort food. In early COVID, for example, it was the processed foods of childhood — cans of Chef Boyardee or fistfuls of Goldfish crackers.

By It's easy to get sentimental about the joy children's books bring to kids.

Is being a woman really all that awful? American popular culture and media have a long history of being less than generous toward the female sex.

On April 4, 2017, Damon Christian Watson walked out of jail in Los Angeles County after being incarcerated for nine months for identity theft, burglary and other convictions. Alone, ashamed and addicted to drugs, he wound up returning to the life he'd led before his arrest.

It's easy to get sentimental about the joy children's books bring to kids. But picture books must also be read by adults, who, depending on the

A resolution by the American Historical Association hardens the perception that academia has become fundamentally politicized.

Between 2010 and 2020, the number of Americans over the age of 65 grew faster than it has in more than 100 years. The American population is older than it's ever been, with more than 55 million people over 65.