This is Zanny Minton Beddoes laughing at all the haters: she just became The Economist's seventeenth editor, as well as its first female editor in the publication's history. In a fascinating press release, she said:

This week, the Economist cast a critical eye toward measuring the progress of women in the workplace. But their unit of measurement appears to be more concerned with "social consequences of women's economic empowerment" than the overall benefit to women.

• Yes, it's fashion week, yes, there are better things to talk about, and yes, we'll get to them after the jump, but first: Toby Keith's clothing line debuted. It's worse than we thought. [TMZ]

Over on Slate yesterday, Anne Applebaum decided to pose the question, "Where Did All Those Gorgeous Russians Come From?" and then offer an answer: The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in an era of makeup and Vogue, and, consequently, attractive Russian women! This is a notion of course, that is completely…

Regular magazines are getting more like women's magazines with every round of media consolidation. This week's 'Economist' featured a particularly girly cover, with its peach tones and corset motif meant to indicate that if we all stop spending so much goddamn borrowed money maybe we will be able to avoid economic…

Surely you have heard of China's longtime "one child" policy to control its population and the way it's warped the population there because all the girls get aborted and therefore, a lot of men have trouble finding wives. Which means men throughout China are dying wife-less these days. And yes, this is really sad and…

Clearance season is here! And...