Understanding the legacies of violence and resistance in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities

Messages about women’s self-esteem are now so ubiquitous that their value has been placed beyond debate.

"Nothing crystallizes the 'her body, my baby' conundrum of surrogacy quite like a war," Alison Motluk writes. "Should a surrogate be tucked away somewhere safe, to protect the child she’s growing for someone else? Or should she be with her own family, or in her hometown, or even out on the streets defending her nation? That is a live question in Ukraine right now."

Thanks to the streaming wars, stars in their 40s are finally getting interesting roles.

In Let’s Get Physical, Danielle Friedman traces the fascinating, loaded history of female fitness. In it, she explores how the idea that women should exercise for their own sake defied the notion that they should be wives and mothers first, people second.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of The Lost Daughter challenges Hollywood’s ideas about what women owe to their children—and to themselves.

A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.

The preponderance of the evidence suggests that social media is causing real damage to adolescents.

Authoritarianism has evolved over the past century, and old-school dictatorships are now joined by electoral autocracies. Yet at least one constant remains: Illiberal political solutions tend to take hold when increased gender equity and emancipation spark anxieties about male authority and status.