When will the Atlantic finally deal with its women problem?

The venerable magazine regularly publishes thoughtful reporting and analysis about the Middle East, U.S. politics, the future of China, the global economy, climate change -- on and on. It's only when the publication gazes on the 50 percent of...

Should we abandon the tradition of journalism that calls for the nearest approach possible to balance and fairness?

That's the argument made by NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen, who found some areas on which he and conservative critics could agree. He argues that transparency is the new objectivity,...

The allegedly bluest of blue states is like the Gobi Desert for female statewide candidates.

No woman has ever been elected governor of Massachusetts. Jane Swift held the post as acting governor in 2001, but only after Paul Cellucci resigned. She was quickly dumped by the Mass. GOP when...

As thousands of tourists file past the monumental statue of Martin Luther King just dedicated in Washington, they will be soothed by its serenity. The new memorial is indeed beautiful, but perhaps too pristine and too peaceful in its verdant setting.

We Americans tend to turn our heroes into...

Finally, a few (very) good words about co-education.

For years, self-appointed gurus have been successfully promoting single-sex classrooms in public schools, arguing that they boost achievement and help children.

Leonard Sax, head of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education and best-selling author of Why Gender Matters and...

Conservatives are spinning a narrative that pictures the U.S. as a profligate, lazy, "entitled" society, one in which the Protestant work ethic has withered on the vine and citizens live beyond their means and rely on government handouts.

In a recent Time essay, "One Nation, on the...

The arguments over the nature of men and women in the wake of the recent sex scandals -- Weiner, Schwarzenegger, Edwards etc. -- often miss the point

It's argued that women are more moral than men, "hardwired" not to stray from their mates. The old limerick puts it this way:

"Greedy Geezers" is a trendy new media narrative. Even former senator Alan Simpson, co chair of President Obama's debt commission, said of seniors, "We had the greatest generation -- I think this is the greediest generation."

Comedian Albert Brooks has a new book (2030) in which cancer...

The past is in trouble in the U.S. Nobody knows much about it.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute issued a report in 2008 titled Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions.

While 56 percent of Americans could name Paula Abdul as a judge on American...

"The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" controversy just doesn't seem to be going away. The parenting book by Amy Chua is not only a major bestseller, but it has created a firestorm of media attention.

The news from Harvard that Chua's daughter, Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, has just been admitted...

Compassionate Conservatism has crashed and burned. The Thousand Points of Light are Sputtering out. John Calvin is bidding to replace Jesus Christ in the religious lexicon of American politics.

Christ said "When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be...

Has the one time Arsenal of Democracy turned into Fantasy Island?

Armed with ever growing information and technology, we used to be up to a challenge. We built towers that did indeed scrape the sky. When we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, we turned the whole nation's industrial capacity into...

by Caryl Rivers

The Great Scold of Radio is gone, and I say good riddance.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced she was leaving her popular radio show after three decades, following a controversy over her use of the "N Word" repeatedly on the air.

Dr. Laura was like your mean...

Are we seeing "The End of Men?"

That's a hot media story these days. Atlantic has a cover piece titled "The End of Men," and New York magazine has a story asking if men are the second sex. The New York Times, in an article that that traveled all...

Welcome to the post-fact world, where Information Debris has replaced real information.

Think of the "news" we've recently heard about. Government sponsored "death squads" to kill grannies; internment camps to indoctrinate kids with socialist dogma; accusations that the Bush administration not only planned 9/11 but blew up adjacent buildings; claims...

A pop quiz: who haven't you heard much about from the media and politicians in the last year:

A) Tea Partiers
B) Netroots bloggers
C) Sarah Palin
D) Wall Street bankers
E) The poor.

If you guessed E, you get a gold star on your forehead....

Has feminism destroyed civilization and upset the natural order of things? Are we doomed unless we go back to the old days of male dominance and female chastity?

That's the argument made by Charlotte Allen for the Weekly Standard.com that is creating a lot of "buzz "on the internet.

Allen...

The tea parties and their populist rage, on display in Nashville, are not a new phenomenon in America. This rage often surfaces when times are hard, and also, when there is a crisis of masculinity in the culture. Especially when it concerns white Christian manhood.

When white men can't...

It's time to remember the immortal words of Tip O'Neill: all politics is local.

The chattering classes who spend little time in the state keep referring to "liberal" Massachusetts. They seem to think we are a collection of Harvard intellectuals, radical students, gay rights advocates, tree-huggers, feminists and thousands of...

By Caryl Rivers

More and more American are moving to "hot," emotion-laden methods of getting news, and away from cool, more objective forms of information, and this fact has already begun to affect our politics.

Unlike newspapers, magazines and network newscasts, 24-hour cable, talk radio, the internet...