There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.