Daddy Dialectic

“Having it all” has been trending for two weeks, ever since Anne-Marie Slaughter’s blockbuster essay “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” w...

1. This summer, we moved back to San Francisco's Mission district after a year-long sojourn in suburban Palo Alto. Three weeks ago we we...

About two weeks ago, Pip dug out from the far end of our bookshelf two children’s biographies that had belonged to me as a kid and had someh...

Last week, I published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Proposition 8 ruling. It's nice and short and topical, and I h...

This coming Sunday the 18th, starting at 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST, I'll be hosting a Firedoglake Book Salon for Naomi Cahn and June Carbone ...

This morning I attended part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting, where they were considering a proposal to ...

A new study says that parenthood pushes men and women in opposite political directions: "Parenthood seems to heighten the political ...

And here's the result of my second collaboration with DadLabs : I like the way this one turned out. It makes a strong 5-minute case for ...

It's ambitious . Highlights: * Strengthen Fatherhood and Families: Barack Obama has re-introduced the Responsible Fatherhood and Health...

I’m reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success while at the same time applying to kindergartens for Liko. It’s an interestin...

Many wonderful things happened on Tuesday. But in California, one awful thing happened: Proposition 8, which enshrines bigotry in the state ...

This morning I was interviewed (along with two other researchers) on the Forum with Michael Krasny about the nature of trust, why it's ...

A reader responds to Andrew Sullivan . Earlier this week, in your post “The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama”, you wrote ...

It's important to remind ourselves that these people are not America. Every poll is now saying that Americans are rejecting the McCain c...

I've been pondering why this stuff bothers me so much. There was never any doubt that I would vote for Obama: I support reasonable gover...