After watching how my family treated my lesbian mom, I assumed it would all repeat when I came out. But as my grandma’s memory faded, her disapproval of gay people vanished too.

When they learned their fathers led the reign of kidnapping, torture and murder that tore Argentina apart, their first reaction was disbelief. Their next was to take action.

...and turned it into an animal sanctuary.

The astonishing legal record of a village in ancient Egypt shows that men using their power to hurt women is a tale as old as time.

Sometimes my Polish-Jewish father and German-Catholic mother seemed like they really loved each other. But when the holidays came around, it was World War III.

I’m a conflicted conservative who could never vote Trump. She’s a diehard delegate who would do anything for the cause. She had four days to try to convert me.

Our house became a hunting lodge, and that was just the beginning.

Every Chinese New Year, my extended family reunites for an evening of laughter, gossip, steaming food and studious avoidance of our matriarch’s laser-like interrogations.