Articles by Andrew Solomon:

Choice strengthens families no matter what choice they make.

Emily Bazelon’s intelligent, rigorous “Sticks and Stones” charts the experiences of a few bullied children and synthesizes the scholarship on how to contain ...

The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world.

If we want to stem violence, we need to begin by stemming despair.

Polite curiosity about one’s children is nothing new. But when you’re gay parents, you must prepare to be interrogated.

Prodigies are able to function at an advanced adult level in some domain before age 12. “Prodigy” derives from the Latin “prodigium,” a monster that violates the ...

The relationship between rape and pregnancy has been a topic of highly politicized debate since long before Todd Akin’s comments on “legitimate rape,” Paul Ryan’s ...

While I was growing up and the racism of our society was beginning to break down, I observed with interest the improvements in the lives of people who seemed very different ...

Freedom from Muammar Qaddafi and his family is very good news for Libya; indeed, his demise is good news for the world. He was both evil and effective, which is a worrying ...

Rio de Janeiro is becoming a standard-bearer of a new kind of social development, a transformation of the long intractable poverty of the favelas.