Farrow insists it is necessary for people to acknowledge and own up to our capacity to do terrible things to each other.

Farrow, who has traveled extensively as an ambassador for child’s rights, confesses that she no longer cares about an acting career.

Farrow, adoptive mother of fifteen, discusses how central a role adults can play in the lives of children.

Other authors fret about the impact of the Web, but Augusten Burroughs “would not want to even be alive” without it.

Something must have been in those cookies Emily Dickinson was baking, because she “seemed to have been in touch somehow with a lot more than she was in touch with.”

Augusten Burroughs has called humor the “spoonful of sugar” that relieves the bitterness of his work—sometimes. But does it come naturally?

The author of “You Better Not Cry” didn’t start writing till he was 24–when he did he quickly learned the importance of reading random, often “really bad” books.

The “You Better Not Cry” author describes the holiday as a gem of happiness wrapped in a package of tragedy.

According to Columbia grief therapist Dr. Katherine Shear, we shouldn’t mourn his passing from relevance just yet.

The grieving process, says the Columbia psychiatrist, doesn’t happen in defined stages; it’s about breaking an “attachment system.”

Is grief an illness? When does “normal” grief become clinical? Columbia’s Dr. Katherine Shear shares insights from her groundbreaking research.

Bereavement expert Dr. Katherine Shear reveals what happens inside the grieving brain and offers strategies for coping with loss.

Columbia bereavement therapist Dr. Katherine Shear discusses her personal encounters with the emotion at the heart of her work.

If a tiger ran in the room, says Dr. Katherine Shear, we’d all have one. Fortunately, like the tiger, panic attacks can be tamed.

Duke University Professor Donald H. Taylor, Jr. says the worst health care policy option is the status quo.

Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver discusses the expansion of children’s rights through athletic competition.

According to Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics, legislation in the last twenty years has done much to open opportunities to children with intellectual disabilities.

Comparing the U.S.-Mexico border fence to the Berlin Wall, Dick Armey urges the GOP to renounce the “mean spirit” that has alienated minority voters.

Tea Party backer Dick Armey believes the movement that ousted a Republican Congressional candidate is actually resolving the party’s “massive identity crisis.”

Former Congressman Dick Armey maps out a Middle Eastern strategy that can help Republicans win their domestic battles.

“She’s everything that Hillary Clinton pretends to be: an independent woman making her own way on her own terms,” says Dick Armey.

If you want to be a winning Republican, says Dick Armey, rally voters around economic policy and keep quiet about social issues like abortion and gay marriage.

The ex-Congressman and onetime economics professor lashes both Republicans and Democrats for their role in the financial meltdown.

If Gerald Chertavian could do dinner with anybody, it would be the great civil rights activist, whose insights into social justice and grassroots organization have proven timeless.

Though the father of modern capitalism is generally associated with the virtues of self-interest, he also possessed a deep moral concern for our responsibility to help others. According to the […]