Until yesterday, I only ever found out what happened in my son’s sex-ed classes by asking him about it. That was painful enough. In elementary school, he apparently learned that HIV is hereditary because you get it from your mother. In middle school, ...

Alice Dreger live-tweets sitting in on her son's abstinence-based sex ed class and wins the internets.

Even though he apologized for comparing it to the Holocaust, Robert Kennedy Jr. retains a bizarre view of autism.

Seattle is taking a revolutionary approach to treating drug abuse, diverting addicts who potentially face criminal charges to housing, treatment, and other services.

When nuclear-powered submarines reach the end of their lives, dismantling them is a complicated and laborious process. Paul Marks investigates.

Opponents and the media 'poisoned' public discussion of the legislation, David Burns says, a day after it was revealed that three Republican leaders were co-sponsors.

A staggering 41 percent of transgender people in the United States have attempted to commit suicide, according to a recent survey.

Watch out who you kill in the virtual world, it may inspire someone to attack you in the real one.

Hillary Clinton has weighed in strongly on same-sex marriage and is urging the Supreme Court to support equality.

Novelist says that group orchestrating readers’ votes for conservative ‘swashbuckling fun’ is trying to take over the awards.

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Lawyers for the Meitivs allege that county officials kept the parents from their children for six hours.

The race for renewable energy has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there's no going back.

For the second time, two children wound up in a police car for playing alone two blocks from their Silver Spring home.

Every year, the Spam Jam shuts down Waikiki’s famous Kalakaua Avenue, filling it with chefs from around 20 Honolulu restaurants who vie to make the most inspirational, surprisingly delicious recipe using the caramel-colored, versatile meat.

"An income is like the wind beneath your wings" it says at the start of the film, created to introduce the concept to Swiss voters during the Basic Income Petition drive.

Politicians should stop pushing Americans to take terrible jobs.

Appointment of Namibian ex-bishop and leading basic income supporter Zephania Kameeta fosters hope that basic income might be close to becoming a reality.