I had never heard of Charles Bowden until the Oct. 13 High Country News. I am moved to tears by what he saw and how he lived and the words he shared. He saw the darkest of all of us and did not shy ...

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., is an institution. He's the longest serving senator in U.S. history. He's also 88 years old, and if he wins re-election -- he's the clear favorite in his race -- he'll be 95 ...

I gave a paper in D.C. last week on the real war against women, the war against women’s fertility. The day after my talk, a man in the audience forwarded this to me. “How Older Parenthood Will Upend ...

Commentator Kelly McBride says despite efforts by many parties to reduce the Schiavo case to black and white for their own purposes, it represents the grayest of gray areas. McBride heads the ethics ...

In an article for The New Republic, Judith Shulevitz writes that as people have increasingly waited until their 30s to become parents, there has been a rise in developmental and neurocognitive ...