They’ve long helped birth babies. Now they’re assisting brides-to-be.

Emma Gold didn’t know what to do — plan her dream destination wedding in South America and risk losing guests, or keep it local and swallow her resentment? Her wedding planner was helping her narrow down venues and calculate logistics and costs, but it was ultimately a doula who addressed Gold’s conflicting emotions and helped her decide. “She told me that I can’t please everybody and that I need to do what’s right for me,” Gold recalls. “But if key people aren’t there, is it still right?” Yes, because Gold’s physical response to a city wedding was cramps and nausea, said her wedding doula, Elizabeth Su.

For decades, doulas have accompanied women during childbirth. Now, a new breed of doulas is turning its attention to the $300 billion wedding industry. A wedding doula is a new concept, so it’s hard to define the role, which falls somewhere between that of best friend, parents, therapist and wedding planner. Think of them as providing “marriage mindfulness.”

Michael Cohen’s remarkable plea implicating his former boss ratchets up the fight to keep the GOP in power.

The longtime attorney and confidant for the president of the United States pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the president to break federal law.

Put aside, for a moment, the daily news cyclone and all that we know about Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels and their parade of flamboyant lawyers. Tuesday was a remarkable day, even for a presidency of overheated news alerts.

Cohen’s plea and his statement in court that he made hush-money payments to women alleging affairs to sway the 2016 election “in coordination with and at the direction of” Trump was a legal bombshell, courtesy of a man Trump had confidently predicted would not “flip” just a few months ago.

You may believe you’re good at detecting bullshit. But research finds you’re wrong.

In the good ol’ days before the internet, inspiration — at least in the form of motivational quotes and self-help wisdom — was reassuringly quarantined. Only if you ventured into a Christian bookstore, a college dorm room (with its life-size Albert Einstein poster) or down the corridors of a regional bank branch with its framed posters touting Leadership, Teamwork and Excellence were you really forced to confront the full vacuity of motivational thinking.

Now, of course, inspirational quotes and memes — often paired with fluffy animals or clouds at sunset — are plastered across our social media feeds. Our appetite for bite-size wisdom seems to know no bounds, and the news cycle the past two years has swept us away in an avalanche of “fake news.” Yes, bullshit is back and it’s bigger than ever, and we are not nearly as good at spotting it as we think. According to a 2015 study involving more than 200 students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, nearly everyone found at least one bullshit statement to be somewhat profound.