It's happened again. Another smart, talented, obviously successful person has fudged her resume and lost a job.

Fudged is a generous word. It's actually lying.

Why do people lie on a résumé in the age of the Internet? How could they not imagine that it will...

One Sunday, as I struggled on the elliptical machine, I glanced up at NBC's Meet the Press on a nearby TV and was stunned. Host Tim Russert was interviewing not one, but three, bright female journalists in a roundtable discussion about the war in Iraq.

I remember thinking: "That is...

I love men, don't get me wrong. I'm just really sick and tired of panels about the news business that are stacked with white men. It's 2007, for heaven's sake.

What's wrong with the people who organize these journalism events? Don't they know that half the population is female? Don't...

E. Howard Hunt died on Tuesday at 88. Or was it Howard E. Hunt? When the Washington Post first wrote about the Watergate burglar shortly after the June 17, 1972 break-in, they kept switching the "E."

Regardless of how you spell his name, the discovery of two personal address books...

Good thing I didn't wait to publish my new biography on Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for the Deep Throat papers that go public on Thursday (Jan. 18).

It was tempting since the fascination with Woodward and Bernstein's mysterious Watergate source is so great that Tom Hank's production...

Sometimes you hear about trends, nod knowingly and move on. And then one day you see it acted out in your own life. As a long-time media writer, I've read about and reported on young people eschewing newspapers so often that it no longer registers. But it did recently.

I...

Almost four years after President Bush ordered troops into Iraq, there is serious talk of Congress holding robust, aggressive investigations of the Bush administration's handling of the war with Iraq.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) wants to hold extensive hearings demanding accountability on the Iraqi War beginning January...