Hey, Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State. . . mother of one. . . person with a beating heart), are you listening?

Tonight, there's a 3-and-a-half-year-old toddler who will sleep without the love, protection and goodnight kisses of his parents. His name is Ruslan, and he has been living in an...

It may be rewarding but it sure isn't easy being a mom. That's never more true than that first week after birth when the first-time mom, fresh from the hospital, arrives home totally unhinged by the earth-shattering birth process, the miracle of creating life, sleep deprivation and the abject terror...

What does a genius do with $500,000?

On Tuesday, the MacArthur Foundation announces the 2009 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, otherwise known as the "genius grant." Each year, about twenty or so innovative thinkers, artists, scientists, doctors and musicians are chosen for outstanding work in their respective fields. In addition...

There is an unspoken subtext to all this Obama-bashing that has been heard at the health care town halls and in the Birther movement. And I'm not talking about the racism which others have already identified. I'm talking about anti-Hawaiianism. As a native New Yorker married to a woman from...