The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares.

I'm the one who didn't want to go into Iraq.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.

You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.