In this week's Thursday Style section, the New York Times presents a terrifying conundrum for the world in which we live: Is the dinner party, that elegant trademark of yore, in its final throes?
Of all the things one might hate as related to our fairly good, not terribly challenging lives, line-standing is clearly not the worst—the worst is obviously bad pizza—but it's an offense that galls nonetheless.
The mother-daughter relationship may be one of the most complex that exists in all of human relations—both more intimate and also, possibly, more fraught with difficulty than one with a husband or wife, even.
Despite what you might hear about the economy, publishing, and the trying lives of the wealthy, it's boom times out there in the arena of glossy print magazines for the rich!
An AP-MTV poll of teens and twenty somethings surveys what they find offensive
The two states top Gallup's latest well-being index
On Obama's budget weakness, cyber security, and the value of good teachers
A Northwestern study attempts to paint a link between obesity and churchgoing
It's an alternative to potassium iodide pills that have already sold out
New study finds a 10 percent rise in domestic violence reports when a local team loses
The very sensitive New York Times looks for the unhappiest person in the nation
Where did all these mysteriously celibate youngsters come from?
Pretty much anyone who can convince a professor or member of Congress to write a recommendation can get a Nobel Peace Prize nomination
The English royal is under scrutiny in the UK for his friendship with the convicted sex offender
Delightful: apparently nearly half of U.S. dogs and cats are overweight
Yet another writer wants to tell us, unequivocally, that twenty-something men are "stunted"
Call 911 for information--this man did
Why some object to seeing gloss on an eight-year-old
Outrage over 100 sled dogs slaughtered in British Columbia
Amy Chua visits Comedy Central and explains how anyone can be a "Chinese Mother"
People are rushing to arm themselves
Partying, kissing, drinking, shooting; rioting, singing, driving, looting
A discussion of this New Year's Eve tradition
Let's turn to the Brits to understand this holiday tradition
National Review's The Corner allows a writer to vent his frustrations with commercialized Christmas--and that pesky Tchaikovsky
The year's first real snow storm here in D.C. conjures up memories of last winter's Mid-Atlantic "snowpocalypse"
Love. Friendship. Horses.
Tweeters already have Christmas on the brain
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