Something weird is happening. As the result of many, many news stories viewed on a glowing laptop screen, the word “Barbie” is becoming emblazoned on my corneas. When I close my eyes I see “Barbie,” ...

Which Barbie doll clothes are best? Since Barbie arrived on the scene in the ’50s, she has had more than 200 careers, as a fashion model, astronaut, ballerina, scientist, lifeguard, firefighter and ...

Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls and trucks,” ...