Heidi Stevens

Jason Patera was experiencing a series of alarming symptoms, all of which he refused to be alarmed by. The ringing in his ears? Probably an unfortunate byproduct of his years...

Children may soon be routinely screened by their pediatricians for anxiety and depression, if the advice of a panel of medical experts takes hold. For the first time ever, the...

I made a bold confession at a party last weekend. It was a safe space. I was surrounded by longtime friends with whom I've traveled and raised children and laughed...

State Sen. Darren Bailey, Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, is holding firm to his assertion that Chicago is a hellhole, a designation he first bestowed upon us during a...

With abortion banned or severely limited in a growing number of states, we'd be wise to zero in on evidence-based strategies for preventing unwanted pregnancies — particularly among teenagers, for...

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime where we stop saying same-sex marriage. Where we just say marriage. Where a qualifier that...

"The sound of children screaming has been removed." It was an editor's note attached to a video published by the Austin American-Statesman, of Uvalde, Texas, police officers' delayed response during...

It's fair to say The Chicks have helped me raise my children. On cross-country road trips, during late-night brownie baking, when I was newly divorced and terrified I broke my...

When a white supremacist opened fire at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, Sheletta Brundidge began searching for ways to help the community — and the country —...