Natalie Medina tells PEOPLE that growing up in a conservative household meant missing experiences she longed for, but today, ...

A new study offers evidence that transgender patients who receive gender-affirming facial feminization surgery reported better mental health after their procedures. A UCLA study offers the first ...

One summer several years ago, Harry Creffield got a dream job acting in a play in Cornwall, a vacation destination on England’s southern coast. The actor and comedian was given free accommodations and ...

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The fight against climate change is often framed as a sacrifice: eat less meat and drive less often. But those actions could also be framed ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Getty; Pierre Michaud / Gamma-Rapho / Getty. With respect to Andrews, in the midst of all this—the testosterone-addled executive branch ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

We're now just a couple of weeks away from the release of Ballerina, and the social media embargo for the John Wick spin-off movie has lifted. The first reactions are mostly positive, and it sounds ...

In the 1980s, women made up about 30% of medical school students, but now they make up 54%. Between 2004 and 2022, the number of women in the active physician workforce jumped 97%, compared to an ...

Every year, China’s minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa. The tradition began in the late 1980s and sees Beijing’s top diplomat visit several ...

Ms. Whippman is the author of “BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity.” Perhaps it’s a predictable irony that in an election cycle that could realistically deliver the first ...