Are pretty people dumb? Or just lazy? That's the issue at the heart of Eric Felton's piece in today's Wall Street Journal. The problem with the article, however, is that it makes your feelings feel confused.

We've mentioned the awesome Hedy Lamarr before, but a new play, Frequency Hopping, has more details on the movie star who was also a "shrewd inventor." Lamarr's husband, a Austrian Fascist weapons manufacturer, dragged her to business meetings in an effort to derail her acting career. She walked away from the unhappy…

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York. She also heads the gender and policy program at Columbia University. On Sunday, a piece she penned was printed in the Financial Times; it concerned a study on which she is the co-author, and it deals with women in…

When Najoh Tita Reid was 5 years old, according to Advertising Age, one of her white friends wouldn't let her white doll play with Ms. Reid's black doll, because the black doll was "ugly." (Where did we hear that before?) Ms. Reid is now the multicultural marketing director for the world's — and country's — biggest…