Michael Jackson died in the early afternoon on Thursday, June 25. I remember because my daughter texted the news to me from her summer college class about 2:45, when she was ostensibly listening to her professor.

That's not so remarkable. What is remarkable is that the next morning's

Let us take a break from politics for a moment to consider the lowly vole. Turns out this small prairie creature is monogamous to a fault, doting parent, good provider - all the things we humans like to think we aspire to. And, it turns out, the male vole also...

Seems like we never quite get away from the background noise. Can you hear it? Strong women are dangerous, strong women should be silenced, strong women threaten to topple all our dearly-held notions about ourselves as a culture. And, look, here it is again, in 2008: Michelle Obama is a...

He should ask her and she should say yes.

Hillary Clinton should be Barack Obama's running mate. She would serve the ticket well, and she deserves the chance to be the first woman vice president, serving alongside the nation's first black president. Imagine. These are momentous times.

I understand the...

Emily Gould, exhibitionist blogger (is that redundant?), landed on the cover of The New York Times Magazine over the weekend and created a firestorm of criticism and vitriol. She's been attacked, as she has over the years for her blogs on Gawker and her own personal online mags, but this...