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Rumaan Alam's new novel starts out as a tale of female friendship between a woman and her child's nanny. Then it becomes a different sort of story — one about an unconventional parenthood.

The Next IdeaWith all the talk of reforming health care, what if we are missing the bigger picture?What if all this emotional debate about whether to…

On his bilingual food blog, Esteban Castillo shares traditional and fusion Mexican recipes. The blog has a stunning, minimalist aesthetic meant to challenge the way people see Mexican food.

"Think of being in a train crash," says one survivor. Now, think of a train crash made of a mountainside. This is an avalanche — and surviving one will take expertise, equipment and a lot of luck.

Still, Laurie Frankel says, her book is fiction. "The nice thing about my life is that it's pretty boring, which is really how you want your life to be — but not how you want your novel to be."

If you’re completely sick of everybody in Washington by now, and find yourself thinking "I literally could do a better job than any of those folks in…

The Next IdeaA few years before the Great Recession, I was an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank. I provided some limited advice on how to stimulate…

Those chills up and down your spine could mean more than just the thrill. An anthropologist tells us what these scary stories reveal. Click — if you dare — for tales of terror.

University of Michigan researchers have invented a pill that will light up cancer cells under infrared light. The pill contains a combination of a dye and…

A new law makes it tougher and more expensive for losing candidates to demand a recount of election results.Governor Rick Snyder signed the new law…