Feeling isolated and overwhelmed with her caretaking duties, a new mom struggles with post-partum depression. Another couple wrestles with the painful decision to give up a beloved pet when the wife's allergies become too severe. A woman in a third family experiences work-family conflicts when she is unable to pick...

Florida governor Rick Scott recently lashed out against anthropologists, the latest whipping boy of the social sciences. "If I'm going to take money from a citizen to put into education then I'm going to take money to create jobs," Scott said. "So I want that money to go...

For anyone who has ever fantasized about escaping the constraints of everyday life through travel, journalist Elisabeth Eaves' absorbing new memoir, Wanderlust: A Love Affair With Five Continents, should be mandatory summer reading. Throughout her 20s, while most of her peers were busy establishing careers and starting families,...

Cafés in Morocco's Jma El Fna square like the Argana, which was bombed in a terrorist attack yesterday, are a mainstay of this bustling marketplace and tourist attraction in the center of Marrakech. In the square, snake charmers and fortune-tellers compete for attention with herbalists hawking homemade Viagra...

This past week on 60 Minutes, allegations emerged that Greg Mortenson, the philanthropist mountain climber and author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time, may have been less than truthful in his memoir. Author Jon Krakauer asserted that Mortenson's...

Until now, most of the images the world has seen of women in Libya have consisted of Gaddafi's Amazon-like female bodyguards, or his Ukrainian nurse, the women who have flanked him during his public appearances over the past several years. By various indicators, women had it...

On Monday, February 21, Fadwa Laroui set herself on fire in the small Moroccan town of Souk Sebt. Amid the dramatic news coming from other parts of the Middle East and North Africa, this story has largely been lost in the shuffle. Yet to ignore what happened to Fadwa Laroui...

As soon as CBS announced yesterday that correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually assaulted while covering the Egyptian protests, the media sprang alive in search of a scapegoat. Two disturbing lines of commentary have emerged: one that cites irrelevant details about Logan's beauty or her past sexual history,...