Just like humans, dogs are prone to anxiety -- and it appears the problem is on the rise. Here's how to calm your four-legged friend before you both lose your minds.

The question of whether or not to have a child can feel less like a personal choice than a litmus test. Having (or not having) children serves as a measure of one's womanly value. In "Why Have Kids?," Jessica Valenti demonstrates this pressure with a remarkable number of cultural examples.

The basic strategy behind a target-date fund is to provide a well-diversified portfolio that starts off aggressively and then, as time rolls on, shifts to a more conservative strategy.

In the long run, voting for conservative Democrats costs liberals their leverage.

Crafty casting turns Wuthering Heights into a love story haunted by the guilt and ghosts of slavery.

Developments in biotech and synthetic biology will increase crop productivity, extend healthy human lifespans (potentially taking pressure off of unfunded liabilities related to health care and pensions), and manufacture (read: grow) a wide range of products.

The follow-up to " The Passage" may be steeped in doom, but it isn't particularly scary. Only when Justin Cronin's vampire tale taps into veins of true despair does the novel come to life.

Consultants to both presidential campaigns admit to buying targeted demographic data from companies that creepily study our habits, preferences and problems.

Meet the Montessori of mutts, where dogs of the wealthy cavort in carefully calibrated environments built around animal psychology.

"Annie," Mitt, Honey Boo Boo bring comfort to melancholy multitudes.

What life in President Romney's America would look like.

As artists in all media go social--from novelists to painters to musicians--the very practice of their craft is becoming public.

In "Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop," the authors focus on the many, largely unknown, African Americans who performed in blackface from before the Civil War to the middle of the 20th century, but they also rescue white blackface performance from the simplistic moralizing that normally greets it.

"Cloud Atlas" is an almost-impossible-to-describe tale that spans continents, genres, and centuries. Hanks says he was a convert as soon as he read the script, which he likens to "a hug that gets tighter and tighter."

According to Tibetan tradition, a tulku is the reincarnation of a recently deceased high lama, "recognized" as a young boy through a mystical process. But some cosmopolitan tulkus -- Tibetan Buddhism's brightest stars and greatest hopes -- are skeptical of the notion that they're deceased lamas, aren't sure they want the job.

Even when you must close a business, you can leave people with dignity, pride, and a bank balance intact, or you can deny what's happening and leave everyone in disarray.

In celebration of Bond's 50th birthday this year, we pay tribute to villains who have gone on to become pop-culture icons.

Cellular phones have made life easier, better, more secure, and more interesting for millions of Africans.

At close to 500 oversized pages, "Information Graphics" is a coffee table book that's more solidly constructed than most coffee tables. Its pages are filled with beautiful, meticulous, and, at their best, revelatory visualizations of worldwide oil consumption, the most frequent causes of death, household spending, wealth distribution, etc.

It's impossible to rid your home of every possible inhalant that a teenager can abuse. But there are ways you can help prevent abuse at your house.