While the new "Mean Girls" movie includes many, many punchlines from the first film, recited verbatim, devout fans will clock plenty of changes. Bullying, once the province of three-way calling on ...

Back in the 1980s, during a holiday get-together, one of the family elders, who was known for sweeping declarations, made a sweeping declaration: “You can’t be a Republican,” she said, “and be a good ...

COMMENTARY: The dominant understanding today of the relationship between men and women no longer includes as an essential element the possible bearing and raising of children; hence, marriage has ...

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be an American, to have a shared stake in this country and its fortunes. In some ways, I suppose the question is unanswerable: We are a vast, ...

If you haven’t seen “Mean Girls” — and no, I do not mean the dumpster fire of a musical that came out last year — then where the hell have you been for the past two decades? (And can you take me with ...