It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. The legacy of its author, Shere Hite, is everywhere.

The enormously influential intellectual, who died over the weekend at 79, kept up the fight until the very end.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

The new Netflix show about serial killers is as much about the men in law enforcement as the men who murder.

How a 1950s professor built a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings.

A new look at New York’s secret workers

Alice Goffman's acclaimed book "On the Run" tells a compelling story. But can we trust it?

The sociologist wrote about joining a murder plot. Now she insists that it was "not about actual violence."

The questionable ethics of Alice Goffman's "On the Run"

An interview with the authors of an enormous new study of generosity

They're less likely to divorce and they do an extra hour of housework each week

Upending a decades-long assumption that having daughters can lead to higher rates of divorce

No matter what Amy Poehler tells you