Sunday night's Girls season finale, "Together" was full of many things: breakups, make-ups, haircuts, sex scenes, legal drama, hypochondria and cotton balls. There was only one thing missing: the truth.

Prior to Sunday night's episode, Season Two's value was in its verisimilitude and self-awareness. Parts of it were so...

And BAM, just like that, with one wry smile Don Draper is back. This season's pure lack of Don came to an inevitable end Sunday night, when millions of viewers tuned in to a cheapened Megan, a beat-up Pete, a dead Lane, an aging Joan, a rising Peggy -- and...

A couple years back, studying in my school's graduate library with a group of finals-stressed friends, I was confronted by a strange exam question for my poli sci course.

The prompt for my take-home final provided two choices. The 'fun' option invited the test taker to write a 'history...