I was a failed ballet dancer, injured and grieving. A humble college catalogue put me on a new path.

The Kremlin might gain some battlefield victories. But it has already lost the war of ideas.

This is the antiquated system the IRS uses to process millions of tax returns each year.

When a troubled man appeared at our door, we saw potential danger — and reacted with kindness.

In MAGA world, racist incitement isn’t a mistake — it's a strategy. And it reopens a wound that nearly killed the patient before.

The radio host and activist went on a hunger strike for 73 days to protest voting rights.

One Mississippi educator was fired for reading kids a silly book about butts.

I’m transgender and was a student at Northwest High School in Grand Island, Neb. The trouble started when I changed five letters in my first name.

Limitarianism questions the idea that individual wealth is ever individual.

The MAGA faithful’s resentments, malevolence and violence are a form of moral ruin. So why have so many American evangelicals signed on?

The author of the forthcoming novel “The Lowland” says there’s no such thing as immigrant fiction: “What do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction?”

A man is in custody after a 10-year-old girl in Ohio was raped, became pregnant and sought an abortion. The mind revolts at this horror.

The lack of a national mobilization to keep babies fed provides a new measure of how deeply indifferent the United States is toward its youngest citizens.

A who’s who of those connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection

His grace was a blessing, and the saddest part of all is that we need it more than ever.

Officials in Spotsylvania County, Va., where I teach, are effectively saying to children: Your experiences aren’t worthy.

This is the antiquated system the IRS uses to process millions of tax returns each year.

Without access to menstrual products, incarcerated women have suffered dreadful health outcomes and sexual abuse by prison staff who use sex as a bartering tool.

Journalists remain calm amid chaos to help others understand what’s unfolding. That toughness comes with a price.

The longer Iran stays in, the more recognition its people and their movement will receive.

Right-wing propagandists are manipulating immigrants who have limited access to reliable information in their primary languages.

The MAGA faithful’s resentments, malevolence and violence are a form of moral ruin. So why have so many American evangelicals signed on?

The MAGA faithful’s resentments, malevolence and violence are a form of moral ruin. So why have so many American evangelicals signed on?

This is the antiquated system the IRS uses to process millions of tax returns each year.

Women’s graphic accounts of the physical and emotional toll of childbearing are called for to make the case for our rights.

Memory was Tony’s only certainty and he clung to it as a lifeline. It was the thing the disease could not take from him. It was another way out of the bubble and the only form of independence he had,...

No matter how immortal we feel, we are all — still — at risk of developing crushing, life-altering symptoms.

Millions of American women are realizing: Sometimes, it takes breaking your life apart to find freedom and peace.

We are the departed, our home blanketed in night, and in my father’s garden flowers are opening, untended and unseen.

It makes no sense to pour billions of infrastructure dollars into locations that are especially vulnerable to climate change.

The world should not look away from my country's plight.

This column will give you some tools to help mitigate the damage we’re causing to the planet.

Loopholes in marriage and immigration law are allowing the exploitation of minors, including U.S. citizens.

Thousands of U.S. schools are using “restraint and seclusion” as discipline. This has to end.

The classic candy's peppy new slogans reek of toxic positivity.

I’m transgender and was a student at Northwest High School in Grand Island, Neb. The trouble started when I changed five letters in my first name.

Or, what happens when I spend my spare time making up Important American Documents.

I'm accused of treason by the people who really are destroying my country's future, its reputation and its standing in the world.

As the drummer beats his rhythm—the heels of his palms resounding against stretched animal hide—I move. I am moved. Arms reach and retract, spine twists and tilts, legs stretch and sweep across the…

COURTESY OF FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX   Robert Gottlieb is a man of eclectic tastes, and it is difficult to make generalizations about the authors he has worked with or the hundreds of books he has...

The Iranian journalist and activist, who spent much of her life being forced to contain her curls, explains how compulsory hijab laws hurt both women and men.

Have we been taught that all White people are racist? No. That White people should feel guilty? No. To hate our White friends and teachers? Absolutely not.

Plenty of children's books contain "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" if you think about it!

The Uvalde shooting didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s what happens when a variety of social ills and a deep cultural reverence for guns meet.

Menstrual changes matter to millions of people. Yet medical professionals keep failing to ask the right questions.

People regarded as fat are misdiagnosed, go undiagnosed and face outright disgust from many health-care practitioners.

The Uvalde shooting didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s what happens when a variety of social ills and a deep cultural reverence for guns meet.

Some legislators have called the Crown Act — which would protect against hair bias — trivial. They're wrong.

The “fearless” label, meant as a compliment, is actually a condescension, minimizing the seriousness of girls’ activism and the real dangers they face.

Yes, you can be a patriot while acknowledging our nation's historical horrors.

Perry's Q&A with readers was at 12 p.m. ET on Thursday. Read the transcript.

For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?

I first met Teju Cole under a tree strung with white lights. It was six years ago, at a book party in lower Manhattan, at the apartment of someone fortunate enough to have a backyard. All around us...

William T. Vollmann’s novel “The Lucky Star,” part of his “transgender trilogy,” is fixated on femininity and the ways it is performed.

In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu instructed leaders in how to secure victory in battle. But as American leaders have shown us, securing defeat is also an art.

Menstrual changes matter to millions of people. Yet medical professionals keep failing to ask the right questions.

Easily accessible images of choking and other rough practices are making parents’ task much more complicated.

Breastfeeding costs money and time. I know, because I tracked every minute I spent nursing and pumping for the first six months of my son’s life.

The “fearless” label, meant as a compliment, is actually a condescension, minimizing the seriousness of girls’ activism and the real dangers they face.

Yes, you can be a patriot while acknowledging our nation's historical horrors.

I woke up the other day to see that a conservative writer had described me as “Strega Nona look-alike columnist Ruth Marcus.”

The world should not look away from my country's plight.