Stories by Ellen Goodman

We plan our own pensions and assemble our own cheap furniture. I pray the Internet ad for a do-it-yourself eye surgery kit is a hoax.

Retrofitting women to make them sexually attractive and "marriageable" is more than a Hollywood fad. It's life or death for many.

Pairing Clinton and Obama (in either order) might produce a ticket that's greater than the sum of its parts.

The Bush administration is trying to take credit for a recent breakthrough in stem cell research, when, in reality, they just ended up delaying the process.

When 40 kids were asked to create a new town, was it possible for them to escape the model of cutthroat competition, class divisions and unrelenting consumerism?

With technology becoming far more sophisticated and pervasive, sports is awash in ethical dilemmas. So where does a lightning fast amputee fit in the spectrum of Barry Bonds with his alleged doping and Tiger Woods with his better-than-perfect Lasik eyes?

If men had been the only voters in Missouri, Montana or Virginia, we'd have a Republican Senate. It's time for the Dems to listen to what women were voting for in the 2006 elections.

In times of war, babies become the new bling.