The life of a young woman in Steubenville, Ohio was forever changed by rape a year ago. Rape should never, ever happen. Sadly it did in Steubenville and according to numbers from statistic brain.com, it happens nearly 90,000 more times each year in the U.S. The Steubenville rape...

As Olivia Culpo took her predictable winner's walk down the runway as the first Miss USA to win Miss Universe in 15 years, she was -- as they all are-- smiling, crying and fidgeting to keep her crown in place.

But something else was different. The 20-year-old Boston University...

Must-see TV used to be on Thursday nights -- Rachel, Ross, Joey, Monica and Chandler were there, so were Jerry Seinfeld and Frasier Crane. It was the night that NBC executives dubbed appointment television and few people dared to miss it. If they did they would be out of the...

This is a plea to the people who produce the local television news after the London Olympics air here -- I am begging you to give me the pertinent local news and weather, not a recap of what I just spent hours watching.

Sunday night I had to shut it...

Republican lawmakers in Michigan don't watch enough television. The ruckus about the use of the word vagina in the statehouse there proves it.

The brouhaha over vagina started when a female lawmaker in Michigan said she was barred from speaking in the statehouse after she uttered the v-word when...

She's not a real friend. I'm just saying.

Of course with the new Apple ads for iPhone 4S, the folks at Apple are selling much more than a phone. The latest television ad with John Malkovich is selling companionship. Call it friendship in a computer chip and her name...

NBC news anchor Matt Lauer will do something most women on television try desperately not to do. He will age before our eyes.

Of course there are women of a certain age in strong powerful roles on television -- Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and Katie Couric to name a...

When I turned on the television earlier this week I thought I'd been transported back to 1950. What spurred the time warp was an ad for a new Lifetime show, The Client List. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as a single mother with two young children. She works at...