How familiar are you with the Victorian-era newspaper feature known as the Agony Column? You are likely familiar with its methods and central plot lines, even if you don’t know what it is ...

Every so often all who seek to peer into the English heart must scan the famed “Agony Column” (Want Ads) of the London Times. Last week in a single issue, on a single page, occurred the ...

News The Column That Spawned a Century of Agony Aunts and Uncles Agony Uncle: Isaac Metzker (second from right) was one of the last editors of the Yiddish Bintel Brief. Image by FORWARD ASSOCIATION ...

Most famed of "agony columns" is that of the London Times. In its front page, packed tight with seven columns of classified advertisements, are found those anguished messages from ...

Opinion columns represent the personal views of the writer, not the position of the newspaper. While news articles aim to present facts without bias, opinion columns offer fact-based individual ...

Wait. Don’t go so soon. While this may be my bleakest headline in almost 100 columns I’ve written for the Journal News Independent, please follow my logic for a moment. I love running. I’m ...

Durban — How familiar are you with the Victorian-era newspaper feature known as the Agony Column? Anonymous personal advertisements made up the column in the mid- to late-19th century. Authors ...

THE first installment on April 10 in this series of three Lenten recollection articles posed the question: Does God love us? After reflecting on the column, which won approving nods from a leading ...

I read with interest and great empathy the March 26 guest column “Dying mom pleads for medical aid-in-dying law” by Lynda Brooks-Bracey, regarding proposed legislation being heard this session.

A viral post about couples splitting expenses 50/50 in an unequal pay relationship made me go down a rabbit hole of the agony aunt-killer subreddits.

Today, advice columns do not merely explain how to have better sex; they show photos. A typical week for the mass-market Sun newspaper’s “Dear Deidre” column includes such conundrums as “I ...

He's closer than ever to his dream of being House speaker. But he's compromised himself along the way.