Just as consumer culture tries to sell "Girls Gone Wild"-style sexism as "empowerment," conservatives are trying to…
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam — better known as M.I.A. — is both rebel and scholar, educator and trickster,…
The folks at Boston Magazine have dug up this gem from 1982, featuring Senator Scott Brown as one of Boston's "Most…
These stimulus-package discussions are kind of hot, huh? [Washington Post; official White House photo by Pete Souza]
The First Lady went to a Maryland school today to promote her anti-obesity campaign, but she was faced with an…
"When does a woman go from being single to unmarried?" asks Austen-lover and NYT scribe Maureen Dowd. And why do we…
After months of being woefully misunderstood, Tareq and Michaele Salahi are talking about their unwelcome attendance…
Although the percentage of people who call abortion "morally wrong" still haven't risen, Gallup polls continue to…

At a Mother's Day tea held at the White House yesterday, the First Lady teared up a bit while talking about her…
Today on the unending circus that is The View, the ladies did their best to hug it out with Amy Kremer, director of…

Jay Leno was supposed to be the comedian at last night's White House Correspondents' Dinner, but his act didn't…
I hate Sarah Palin as much as the next rational person, but you know what's even worse than Palin's politics? A "sexy…
Opponents of Arizona's harsh new immigration law have called for a boycott of Arizona companies, including Cold…
On her husband Eliot Spitzer's infidelities. [Politics Daily, via Washington Post]

M.I.A. has always mixed pop with politics. And her new video, for a track called "Born Free," is a nine-minute,…
"Presidential brothers-in-law are supposed to be monumental screwups," Stephen Colbert chided Craig Robinson last…
It's been a rough week for Scott Baio: paying taxes, dealing with nasty websites, supervising his wife's homophobic…
Like Bridget Jones is used as the thermometer to measure one's level of loneliness, the word "sorority" is tossed…