Since the collapse of the domestic housing market in 2007 and the ensuing global financial swoon, much has been made of the Great Recession's effect on men. More men lost their jobs than women, and just two years ago, more men were unemployed than women. Because of this, the Department of Horrible Neologisms has…

Cathy will end its 34-year run in October, and though it will probably be remembered for its repetitive jokes involving chocolate and swimsuits, Cathy Guisewite's strip was actually eerily prescient on the ills that bedevil us today.

Almost two years ago, former staffer Moe Tkacik (now at True/Slant and Clusterstock) created Crappy Hour, in which participants opined on everything from Britney, to baseball, the Clintons, and oral sex. Some things have changed, but many stayed the same.

Elle publisher Carol Smith tells the Times why women make better bosses — and explodes a bunch of gender stereotypes in the process. But is she also creating new ones?

Newton Emerson is a known satirist and a touch conservative and, as I know too well, sometimes satire flies over people's heads. That probably explains Louise Livesey's rant about Emerson's article on The F Word.

I was talking with some non-fashion people recently when one asked, "So. This 'Financial Crisis.' Does it affect anyone? Really?" Then I thought how slow the major cities have been since, oh, precisely last September.

The economy may be in the crapper, but Christmas is not cancelled. And maybe celebrating with lights, ornaments and food in the middle of winter is actually a good thing. Or at least, that's what the people at Bronner's want you to think. The New York Times sent style reporter Guy Trebay to the Bronner's "CHRISTmas"…

FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair tops the Wall Street Journal's list of "The 50 Women To Watch 2008", which attempts to line up the top 50 women in corporate America today. Despite being the lone government employee on the list, Bair tops it not just because of her work in finance as the chair of the FDIC but because, more…

Election Day marks the end of this interminable campaign, though not the issues that drive it or, one hopes, the electorate's interest in politics. To help me mark the time, former Jezebel Moe Tkacik takes a break from running up and down the East Coast and hobnobbing with the intellectual elites and a Congressman or…

Jonah Goldberg is a conservative writer and "thinker" who holds such well-thought out opinions such as racial discrimination is just a paranoid fantasy, opinions that the LA Times lets him publish (he is also an Editor At Large at the National Review). Latoya Peterson and I have a different word for him: racist.…

Unfortunately, it's morning again and that means that there is sunlight and political discussion to deal with, despite what one might generously term my long night. Latoya Peterson, though, has my back and yours and leads me gently through a discussion of voter turnout, voter boredom, Bretton Woods, Nicolas Sarkozy,…

The end of every relationship has its he-said, he-said moments, like who called who last and who should have told who what. Colin Powell and John McCain are no different, but Racialicious Editrix Latoya Peterson and I try to help by creating a playlist for the former paramours. Our thoughts on that, why we aren't Real…

Yesterday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who served under George W. Bush, endorsed Barack Obama for what he said are a number of policy reasons, in addition to a growing disillusionment with the tenor of McCain's campaign. But that's all a big lie, because, according to Limbaugh and Buchanan and legions of…