Geoffrey Mak, author of Mean Boys, explains our new age of cruelty—led by personalities as wide-ranging as Donald Trump and Elliot Rodger—and how we can pivot to power that encourages generosity.

Queer Chinese American writer Geoffrey Mak takes the personal essay to new, and sometimes unsettling, heights, in his book "Mean Boys: A Personal History" (Bloomsbury, 2024). Described as a "memoir-in ...

"Mean boys" are a bigger problem than "mean girls" in middle and high school, a new study suggests. The findings challenge the widely held belief that girls are more likely than boys to use what's ...

I mean, maybe not now. I’d avoid you thereafter if it were my kids you boy-shamed . . . for wanting to play with girls, by the way. As if they were fellow people or something.

"Mean girls" may be getting a bad rap. While everyone knows the stereotype of teen girls who use vicious gossip and social rejection to put down their rivals, a new study finds the same behavior ...