Is faking perfection -- by airbrushing, lip synching, and digitally enhancing -- some kind of inverse new form of acting responsibly?

When a noticeably thinner, seemingly photoshopped version of pop singer Kelly Clarkson recently appeared on the cover of Self magazine, many fans wondered if the popular American Idol...

The search for happiness is back.

Increasingly chronicled in newspapers, blogs, books and TV, finding your bliss is finding its way once again into our conversations and our consciousness.

Mountains have been trekked, wisdom imparted, the source of distress identified.

"Greed. Insatiable human greed." That anti-Gordon Gekko...

Mired In Mea Culpas: If love means never having to say you're sorry, does apologizing now mean you never have to accept responsibility?

We are awash in apologies.

But are any of them meaningful?

Since President Obama's inaugural call for "a new era of responsibility," and his subsequent,...

Sarah Palin may be the most famous hockey mom with a gun, but the debate about mothers who pack lunches, diapers, kids and heat was hot well before Palin became a household name.

Back in June, the website BabyCenter -- usually devoted to the gentler arts of motherhood...

My first inclination was to have second thoughts.

About opening the Pandora's box implicit in this question: "Do you really know who people are?"

The question nags from a new website called CriminalSearches.com, which invites users to type in the name of any adult anywhere in the U.S....