Ashley Fetters
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Yale University The First of the ‘Yale Women’
The university went fully coed 50 years ago. Four of its first female students remember their freshman year.
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picture alliance / Getty Can Facebook Fix the Dating World Tinder Created?
Before dating apps like Tinder, dates usually resulted from at least some baseline level of shared experience. Facebook wants to turn back the clock.
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Bread and Butter Productions / Getty Why It’s So Hard for Young People to Date Offline
Meet-cutes are hard when nobody wants to talk to strangers.
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o.przybysz / Shutterstock Toward a Universal Theory of ‘Mom Jeans’
Straight-legged, high-waisted jeans were almost casualties of reductive stereotypes about motherhood—but now they’re back.
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Paul Bradbury / Getty The Widespread Suspicion of Opposite-Sex Friendships
Can straight men and women really be best friends? Their partners are wondering, too.
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Rustle / Picsfive / Mega Pixel / Shutterstock … The Evolution of the Desire to Stay Friends With Your Ex
Is it a cruelty or a kindness to suggest friendship during a breakup?
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John Locher / AP When Fear of Deportation Keeps Families From Help After a Shooting
In the aftermath of the El Paso killings, some undocumented immigrants reportedly were too afraid to seek care or help locating their relatives.
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Estersinhache fotografía / Getty The Demystification of the Postpartum Female Body
As women open up about the realities of recovering from giving birth, the resources available to new moms are expanding.
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GagliardiPhotography / Shutterstock When ‘You’re Adopted’ Is Used as an Insult
Often deployed on playgrounds and between siblings, the slur draws on stereotypes about adoption that are both obsolete and unrealistic.
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Thanasis Zovoilis / Getty What Happens When Parents Wait to Tell a Child He’s Adopted
A new study suggests that learning about one’s own adoption after a certain age could lead to lower life satisfaction in the future.
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Gretchen Ertl / Reuters ‘He Said Yes!’
Despite changing norms, it’s still exceedingly rare for women to propose in heterosexual couples.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters At Least 30 Migrant Children Have Been Separated From Their Parents for More Than a Year
A report from the House Oversight Committee provides new details on the calamity at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Brad Penner–USA TODAY Sports / Reuters What a Time (For Girls) to Be Alive
Parents are hoping that this summer is changing girls’ beliefs about who can be a leader or a hero in America.
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Wilfredo Lee / AP ‘As a Father ...’
In the first round of Democratic presidential debates, male candidates were eager to play the dad card, while none of the mothers running mentioned her parenthood.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters A Rare Photo of a Rarely Photographed Crisis
An image can make an atrocity seem more real to the American public—but why do people need to see in order to feel?
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AP / Gregory Bull Children Cannot Parent Other Children
Reports of babies and toddlers being left in the care of slightly older children in detention facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border reveal an ongoing atrocity.
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Annie Otzen / Getty The End of the Age of Paternity Secrets
A historian of fatherhood wonders whether the rapid embrace of consumer DNA testing will be seen as a positive development in the future.
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Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Kyle Kashuv Becomes a Symbol to Conservatives Who Say the Left Can’t Forgive
The 18-year-old gun-rights activist and Parkland-shooting survivor is being touted by the right as the latest victim of “cancel culture.”
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Rykoff Collection / CORBIS / Getty Turn-of-the-Century Thinkers Weren’t Sure If Women Could Vote and Be Mothers at the Same Time
In the years leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Atlantic writers often pitted political participation against domestic duty.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Men Aren’t Quite Sure How to Be Abortion-Rights Activists
Does a movement that proclaims a deep belief in women’s autonomy have a place for male voices?
