Earlier this week, The Raw Story expressed exasperation at the MSM non-coverage of an impeachment story under the headline, "Mainstream Media Yawns as Kucinich Offers Impeachment." A yawn may look pretty good to Raw Story around now. On CNN's This Week in Politics, Tom Foreman demoted the news to...

One of the most significant demographic trends over the past half-century is the ascendence of people who are single. They have the power of numbers -- as a proportion of the adult population, they are closing in on people who are married. As householders, their place is dramatically different...

"We are the women of this nation," declared the ad that filled a full page of the New York Times and USA Today. "Hillary is OUR voice, and she is speaking for all of us."

I had heard about this ad, but I hadn't read it until sociologist

A few weeks ago, Ted Sorensen - husband, father, and renowned speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - was interviewed by Deborah Solomon of the New York Times. Consider this excerpt:

NY Times: "Was your working relationship with J.F.K. the great love affair of your life?"

They are a Democratic candidate's demographic dream:

• Already, there are tens of millions of them, and each time the Census Bureau issues a new report, we learn that their numbers have swelled still again.

• Their voting potential is not fully tapped. Far from it. Millions among them...

Feeling stressed? Worried that your blood pressure may be soaring? The media have a solution for you -- get married! You've seen the headlines:

"Marriage may lower blood pressure."
"Walk down the aisle for lower blood pressure, but be happy!"

What you haven't seen, if you...

To Lori Gottlieb, author of "Marry Him!":

Clearly, you were upset by my reaction to your Atlantic piece. I apologize for the distress I caused you. I'll offer an excuse or two, but not to detract from my apology. It stands.

[To readers other than Lori:...

A global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, that, in turn, take up more space and gobble up more energy and water.
-- National Science Foundation.

Mitt Romney lost his 2008 Presidential bid. He tried again in 2016 and fared a bit...

Lori Gottlieb, writing in the Atlantic magazine, has one word for single women of any age: Settle!

Settle, she exhorts us, even for the guy who smells bad or who gives you "a cold shiver down your spine at the thought of embracing" him. Settle for the man who...

I don't see why there is so much advice offered to single people about Valentine's Day. They are not the ones having a hard time.

Recently, Yahoo surveyed users of their Personals page, and found that Valentine's Day is part of "-a0157252925">National Break-Up Season," -- a time...

Did you see the recent AP report with the ominous opening paragraph? Remember the 6-year old who was beaten to death then buried in cement? The 2-year old who was thrown across a room and died? It was a lengthy article, but the conclusion was up-front: "an ever-increasing share...

On most days of the year, some members of the service seem to be chosen as media favorites; they garner more attention, gratitude, and concern than others. Watch the clips of warriors returning home and notice how often they are rushing into the outstretched arms of a spouse.

Listen...

The endorsement of Rudy Giuliani by Pat Robertson is cause for brow-furrowing. Who are these "values voters"?

Actually, I think I can answer that, because I'm a values voter, too.

• I value human lives. Not just American lives but Iraqi and Afghani and Iranian and Sudanese and Mexican...

A reporter called me recently and reeled off a list of celebrities. Oprah, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, and Jessica Lange were just the first few. Others in the category included Brad Pitt, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, David Letterman, John Malkovich, Tina Turner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins. You can...

September 16-22 is Unmarried and Single Americans Week. Just in time for the celebration, the Census Bureau just released the latest figures showing a notable decrease in the percentage of married-with-children households. The report focused on the change since 2000, but the demographic revolution that is positioning people...

Remember "soccer moms"? Mark Penn coined that term during Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, and he's proud of it. I cringe at the condescension of some of these cutsie appellations, but hey, the man does have some considerable successes to his name. And now he is the chief strategist...

Want to guess who has the most favorable opinions of Hillary Rodham Clinton? The New York Times unfurled the numbers in one easy-to-read graphic. Setting aside the obvious categories (Democrats and liberals are mostly favorable, Republicans and conservatives are mostly unfavorable), you are left with 20 choices, including independents...

The headline on MSNBC was catchy: "New treatment for depression - marriage." It was also irresponsible.

I spent years checking out claims like this while working on my book, Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. At the...

"Mom and Dad." In our cultural fantasies, that team will always be #1 when it comes to raising happy and healthy kids. As for single moms, well maybe some of them are trying hard, but they are up against it, forever trying to lure their children back from the...

I predict a Marilyn Quayle moment. For anyone who missed or repressed the 1992 Republican convention, the moment arrived when Dan Quayle's wife took the podium and waved the family values flag. She disparaged working women. She expressed pity for the liberals who were (in her opinion) "disappointed...