On a hot, steamy day in Philadelphia, a group of delegates to the Continental Congress gathered to celebrate the final ...

Renowned advice columnists Eppie Lederer and Pauline Phillips, known as Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren (“Dear Abby”) respectively, were twin sisters, born on this day in 1918.

When Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul Ann Landers once referred to as "a tyrant" bought "The Chicago Sun-Times" in 1984, it prompted Abby's twin sister/rival's decision to jump ship from "The ...

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I the Asshole.

Dear Annie: I’m 63 years old, and I live alone in a quiet little house with my dog, Rosie. I like to sit on the porch in the evenings and watch the sun go down, but lately the silence feels ...

Dear Reader, Get A Life Today's talk show therapists and edgy advice columnists are bolder, and possibly more effective, than the genteel advisers of newspapers past. By Pamela Paul published July ...

Identical twin sisters Esther (Eppie) Pauline Friedman Lederer and Pauline (Popo) Esther Friedman Phillips were born in Iowa in 1918 and grew up to be the authors of the “Ann Landers” and ...

Ann Landers was a pen name created by a Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943, and “Dear Abby” was created by a lady named Abigail Van Buren. The columns disappeared when those two ...

Dorothy Dix dispensed advice for 55 years, and then came twin sisters of Abigail Van Buren (“Dear Abby”) and Ann Landers. Voss noted that Abby and Landers did not often agree. Ann Landers opposed ...

The Tennessean had Dear Abby, and The Banner had her sister’s advice column, Ann Landers. I read their columns every day. But I think our Managing Editor Rachel Townsend is smart to ignore my requests ...

Dear Readers: After 21 years writing the “Ask Amy” column, I’m announcing that I’m leaving this space. My final column will run at the end of June. I’m healthy, happy, and 64 years old.