Friday, Soraya Chemaly posted a passionate cri de coeur urging us to boycott Sunday's Oscar broadcast.

Soraya, I felt your pain! Furthermore, the situation was even worse than you described it. Not only was the only female contender with buzz swiftboated (making this the 81st year...

The first time I saw Zero Dark Thirty was on December 3, 2012. It was a Monday night, and I was at a screening for New York-based film critics. No one I knew had seen Zero Dark Thirty yet, but everyone I knew was very eager to see it. After...

I went to bed last night totally sure what today's lead would be:

"What a difference one year makes," I wrote in my draft. I went on:

Last February, I posted a piece on Huffington Post ("Oscars 2012: Where Are the Women?") about how the absence...

Nora Ephron died on Tuesday, June 26, at the age of 71. Although she had been very ill for several years, she kept her condition a secret, so her "sudden" death came as a shock to many people. Tributes began flowing into the Blogosphere, and the avalanche of anecdotes swelled...

Last week, California Congressman Darrell Issa convened a hearing in DC. The topic: Should the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") require employers to pay for birth control? The panel: Five men representing various faith constituencies.

"The hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about...