Belinda Luscombe

Belinda Luscombe is an editor at large at TIME, where she has covered a wide swath of topics, but specializes in interviews, profiles, and essays. In 2010, she won the Council on Contemporary Families Media Award for her stories on the ways marriage is changing. She is also author of Marriageology: the Art and Science of Staying Together.

Recent Articles

The Horror of the Pelicot Trial

How can there be so many men willing to rape an unconscious woman? 

By Belinda Luscombe

Mel Robbins Will Make You Do It

How the podcaster and author rose to the top by stating the obvious

By Belinda Luscombe / Boston

How a 19-Year-Old Refugee Worked on Pharrell's Movie

“Two of my favorite things, Lego and Pharrell, came together. I didn't think that something like this could happen.”

By Belinda Luscombe

Interview: Jez Butterworth and Laura Donnelly

The married playwright and actor on their new play, 'The Hills of California,' and how they inspire one another to create meaningful work.

By Belinda Luscombe

Why Aisha Nyandoro Gives Mothers Cash

The founder of Magnolia Mother's Trust believes Black moms know what's best for their families

By Belinda Luscombe

Why 1 Million People Trust Sharon McMahon

The former government teacher has attracted more than 1 million people to her Instagram account SharonSaysSo

By Belinda Luscombe

Claudia Romo Edelman Is Working to Challenge Stereotypes

The former diplomat is redefining the perception of the Hispanic community in the U.S.

By Belinda Luscombe

Claudia Romo Edelman está trabajando para desafiar los estereotipos

La ex diplomática está redefiniendo la percepción de la comunidad hispana en los EE.UU.

By Belinda Luscombe

The Ordained Rabbi Who Bought a Porn Company

Solomon Friedman of the private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners says he's on a mission to clean up Pornhub

By Belinda Luscombe

Can Co-Workers Really be Friends?

Work friendships are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, work is vastly more bearable--and maybe even strays into fun--when you're pals with the people you spend time with each day. Friendship can make odious...

By Belinda Luscombe

How to Make—and Keep—Friends at Work

There are many benefits to having friends at work, but those relationships can get complicated quickly

By Belinda Luscombe

The Doug Emhoff Model of Masculinity

The Second Gentleman gave a little master class in how to be a guy's guy as well as a wife guy.

By Belinda Luscombe

Kamala Harris and the Inevitable Return of 'Not That Woman'

Every time a female candidate seeks the presidency, people swear they'd love to see a woman lead–just not that woman.

By Belinda Luscombe

Darren Walker Looks Toward the Future

"Hope is the oxygen of democracy," says the outgoing president of the Ford Foundation

By Belinda Luscombe

Why People Still Misunderstand Trauma

'The Body Keeps the Score' author Bessel van der Kolk explains the complicated work of treating trauma.

By Belinda Luscombe

Melinda French Gates Is Going It Alone

The philanthropist talks leaving her foundation, giving away $1 billion, and life after divorce.

By Belinda Luscombe / Kirkland, Wash.

This Psychologist Just Won a $1.3 Million Prize

Every year since 1972, the Templeton Foundation has given a Nobel Prize-sized amount of money to a researcher who is exploring in a rigorous, scientific way "the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place...

By Belinda Luscombe

Sam Taylor-Johnson on 'Back to Black'

The director on her approach to Amy Winehouse's story, why she doesn't read anything about herself in the press, and the franchise she'd love to tackle.

By Belinda Luscombe

Raluca Cohen

Scientists never used to give a spit about saliva. Diagnostically, it was the least useful bodily fluid, especially compared with serum (blood) and urine. But that has changed, partly because of the pandemic, and partly...

By Belinda Luscombe

Bessel van der Kolk

The word trauma comes from the Greek word meaning “to wound.” Once reserved as a term for the lingering effect of particular horrific events on those who endured them, trauma is now seen—for better or...

By Belinda Luscombe
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