Extreme expectations mean extreme stress for the teenagers trying to graduate from California’s elite schools. What’s life like inside a pressure cooker? Just ask the kids who are living it. — Adults have many opinions about teenagers, and for the most part they’re negative. Teenagers are unpredictable and mean, we say, or they’re lazy and entitled, or they’re self-involved, selfie-taking, Snapchat-addicted narcissists who don’t understand how easy they have it.

And what do I do about champagne toasts? —

Is there any way to distinguish good rehabs from scammy ones?

Someone asked, “Who was your first Harvey Weinstein?” now that his name is synonymous with sexual predator. Every woman who heard the question had to stop and think because it has happened for so long, so often, in so many different ways. It happens early for most of us, the…

My job didn’t just give me purpose: It showed me what purpose looked like. — By Katie MacBride It wasn’t just a job. That’s what the people who tried so hard to pull me out of my angst didn’t realize. When I started working at the Library I was just a few months out of rehab, sober, and no idea who the fuck I was…

The U.S. government can’t save me from my rogue colon. But it can allow people like me — with “preexisting conditions” — access to…

The grief I felt after the election of Trump made me confront a tragedy in my past.

Without language that normalizes discussion of poop, people with digestive and bowel disorders suffer.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that many people have an opinion about the way I eat.