Stephanie Coontz

To find a future for the institution, we need to accurately account for its wildly varying past.

Conservatives think we need traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline; But it’s the economic equality created by strong unions that Americans miss.

A nineteenth-century twist on love at first sight.

Jill Filipovic on the generation that changed everything.

Philip Wylie’s "Generation of Vipers," revisited.

For most of its history, monogamy was a rule only applied to married women.