Embodying this fascinating patchwork of ideas good and bad is the Irish actress Jessie Buckley, who will soon find herself in the odd position of winning an Oscar for a serious prestige movie while ...

I am in love with a man I can’t have. He happens to be a priest who is married to the “church.” I have been avoiding attending Sunday masses because I began going for the very wrong reasons—just to ...

They are really supportive, great grandparents, and all-around good people. Up until this year, we lived a two-hour drive away from them, but they made the effort to come up at least once a month to ...

Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so we’re diving into the Dear Prudence archives to share classic letters with our readers. Submit your own questions to Prudie here. My fiancé’s ...

Oh, parenting in the digital age… Our son’s school Chromebook has become a gaming console in disguise.

Speaking to their parents has been useless–they claim they can tell their kids to stay off our property, but can’t do anything about it if they lie and go to the pond anyway. I don’t want to have to ...

My daughter, “Abigail,” is getting married in June, and my wife and I are at odds over whether to allow her sister, “Gia,” to ...

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My sister, “Bridget” and her ex-husband, “Tom” went through a nasty divorce three years ago after he learned she was having ...

I have a complicated situation, but I’ll try to be brief. My wife and I (both women) began having regular threesomes with a ...

It broke at pop and country radio stations virtually simultaneously—in fact, it got to No. 1 on the Hot 100 a little faster than the Country chart and even held off the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” from No. 1 ...