Memo to mom-bloggers and editors at parenting sites everywhere:You want fathers blogging.  You need to encourage fathers to blog ... about parenting, about work/life balance, about everything you write about.  So let's open the gates ...

There was a fuss recently at the parenting site Babble over a series of...

They are small and unregulated and in more than 800 products from socks to sunscreen to Superfund sites, and we want to know more about them.

But we need your help.

The Faster Times has launched its second innovative "Reader Investigation" into nanotechnology and nanoparticles.

The Columbia Journalism Review...

For more than a month, reporter Amy Westervelt has been a leading a collaborative crowdsourcing investigation into private label brands for The Faster Times.

And now we need more help.

Amy's investigation has delved into the world of private label organic beef, focusing on whether organic...

We want to know what goes into that generic or store-brand tomato sauce you pour over your spaghetti, for it's not always what you think.

But here's the thing: We can only find out with your help.

Here at The Faster Times, we have introduced Reader Investigations, a new...

Tiger, let's cut to the chase. You have two kids. You can't have spent all that much time with them, and it is unclear how seriously you have taken fatherhood.

This is not good.

Now you have taken "indefinite" leave from golf. This is a start, though an undetermined...

"About 80 percent of Americans are happy with their health insurance," I said to my Swedish wife over coffee, the baby squealing with glee as his sister danced around him. "So, you see, it can be a hard sell to actually create change."

I was proud. This was it, the...

Enough with Woodstock. Please. Put me out of this baby boomer misery.

I have lived with this generation's self-absorbed false sense of grandeur long enough. I can not take one more day of Woodstock nostalgia, of both crass commercialism and well-crafted gooey reminiscences. I can not stand another thirty years...

Pirates have been the scourge of the music and film industry for years, swapping and "stealing" songs and movies with no regard for the law.

But now the pirates will be making the law. And this should scare a lot of besieged captains of information industry, who may not be...

Dick Cheney is a black hat-wearing bad guy straight out of the Old West. But he is not of the West in the way he pretends -- the long-past Wyoming childhood, the simple black and white tough talk, the hunting with and wounding of other rich cowboys. He is not...

Hi. My name is Nathan. I am an American living in Sweden. And I am addicted to socialism.

I must admit that I did not come here tonight totally of my own free will, which has been apparently sapped by the Swedish welfare state. For I thought I was quite...

A Swedish high school student wants to go to high school in a small city in Texas so he can closely follow stem cell research, according to Metro here in Stockholm.

This is perhaps the clearest example I have seen of the Obama effect on Europe, taking an unfriendly, torturing...

The chance to nap. The chance to ponder NBA playoff match-ups or your favorite baseball team's pitching rotation. The chance to hang out on a bench in the sun with a friend.

Men. You are missing this.

Thanks to the Swedish welfare state, I spent six months on paternity...

Europe is in trouble. Everyone says so. Paul Krugman says so. The Swedish finance minister says so.

The reasons given are legion. Not enough economic stimulus. A deluded sense that spending on the social safety net will pull economies through. Not enough political integration. Too much economic integration....

Rage versus resignation: France boils over while Detroit sleeps

In France, factory workers are holding some factory bosses hostage, egging others and taking to the streets in the millions.

In Detroit, a café is holding a 10-day music marathon while an entire city and region passively wait for leaders to...