Does having a baby drain away a woman's ability to effectively trade stocks and bonds? One billionaire Wall Street operative think's that the case.

Paul Tudor Jones, the head of Tudor Investment Corporation, ignited an Internet firestorm with recent remarks to an audience at the University of Virginia....

It took the Marathon bombing and its aftermath to seal the deal. I now know in my gut I am a Bostonian. I got really angry and my first thought was, "How can they do this to MY town!"

And my town is a different place than when I moved...

It's spring, the buds are sprouting, the sap is rising -- and political redemption is blooming anew.

Two politicians forced to resign from office due to sex scandals are back in the game. Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has won a primary over a Republican contender in a race...

With American education in crisis, we need a "new deal" for girls and boys.

Not just to give them a leg up on the three Rs, but to counter dangerous gender stereotypes that can put kids in straitjackets, hindering their development and dimming their futures. To do this, we have...

Worrying about boys is an older American pastime than baseball.

New York Times columnist David Brooks may not realize it, but when he recently bemoaned the state of American boys, he joined a long line of despairing worriers about American manhood.

James W. Chesebro, professor of communication at Ball State...

Until quite recently, I had believed that the world of my novel, "Virgins," about Catholic girls growing up in the 1950s, was a giant step away from contemporary reality.

After all, in those days, nuns wore habits with skirts to the floor and were expected to be passive and obedient....

Fifty Shades of Grey has joined the likes of Lady Chatterly's Lover and Tropic of Cancer in the annals of erotic books. It's been banned by the libraries of Brevard County, Fla. as just too dirty for the local citizenry to consume. This may only enhance the book's explosive sales...

Once there was The Scarlet Letter. Now, it seems, we have The Scarlet IUD.

If Rush Limbaugh had his way, every young woman who used birth control would be made to wear their devices or pills on a string around their neck, dyed to a shameful scarlet.

In his...

In his controversial book The Bell Curve ( with Richard Herrnstein), Charles Murray said that blacks are inherently dumber than whites.

In his new book, Coming Apart, Murray says that working-class whites are getting dumber and losing traditional values such as marriage, hard work and church-going.

Murray has always...

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...