More

All The Featured Blog Posts

Filter by:    AOL    AOL Music    Arts    Black Voices    Books    Business    Canada    Canada Business    Canada Lifestyle    Canada Living    Canada Politics    Canada Sports    Canada Style    Celebrity    Chicago    College    Comedy    Cooking    Crime    Culture    DC    Denver    Detroit    Divorce    Education    Entertainment    Eyes & Ears    Fifty    Food    Gay Voices    Good News    Green    Health and Fitness    Health News    Healthy Living    High School    Impact    KitchenDaily    Latino Voices    Living    Local    Los Angeles    MapQuest    Media    Miami    Mindful Living    Money    Moviefone    Moviefone Canada    New York    Parents    Politics    Religion    San Francisco    Science    Small Business    Sports    Style    Stylelist    TechCrunch    Technology    Travel    TV    UK    UK Celebrity    UK Comedy    UK Culture    UK Entertainment    UK Fashion    UK Lifestyle    UK Politics    UK Style    UK Tech    UK Universities & Education    Weddings    Weird News    Women    World
Robert Teitelman

The Private Equity Debate: That '70s Show

Robert Teitelman | Posted May 27, 2012

More on the continuing rumble over private equity. Noah Smith defends private equity by arguing that without it, we'd resemble the Japanese, with their entrenched corporations and oppressive, male-dominated salary men corporate lifestyles. Paul Krugman, brandishing charts, insists that private equity increased inequality. Matthew Yglesias

John Brown

Propaganda, Public Diplomacy and the Smith-Mundt Act

John Brown | Posted May 26, 2012

"I am not particularly concerned whether either gunpowder or propaganda have benefited or harmed mankind. I merely emphasize, at this point, that propaganda on an immense scale is here to stay. We Americans must become informed and adept at its use, defensively and offensively, or we may find ourselves as...

Emerson Whitney

Carmen Carrera and Janet Mock on Lorena Escalera, Media Justice, and 'Utmost Fabulosity'

Emerson Whitney | Posted May 26, 2012

A wildly insensitive New York Times article on the life and death of trans artist and drag performer Lorena Escalera flared tensions between the gender-variant community and the paper when it was published as part of the Sunday edition on May 14. The article, called "Woman Dies in...

Tim Giago

How a Grouchy Gourmet Broke Down Racial Barriers

Tim Giago | Posted May 25, 2012

Oftentimes an idea is born out of necessity; and that is the way a weekly column called, "The Grouchy Gourmet" was born.

The column first appeared in my weekly newspaper Indian Country Today in the late 1980s. It came about because the newspaper had received several calls and letters...

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

Goodbye Printed Newspapers, Hello Streaming Mobile

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted May 25, 2012

U.S. newspaper hiring data reflect a peak year of 1989, and mainstream media have been downsizing large staffs ever since. The State of the News Media 2012 report highlighted that:

• 54 percent in the U.S. get news from a desktop or laptop computer
• 44 percent...

Malik Siraj Akbar

Threatened Pakistani Journalist Seeks Asylum in Australia

Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted May 25, 2012

A Pakistani minority journalist being held at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre, 40 kilometers southeast of Derby in West Australia, says he now feels "protected" from Islamic terrorist groups that had threatened to kill him in his home country. Amjad Hussain, 38, a print and broadcast...

Dr. Philip Zimbardo

Why Society Is Failing Young Boys

Dr. Philip Zimbardo | Posted May 25, 2012

Have you noticed how guys are being portrayed in movies lately? Unless you've been living under a rock you've seen at least one of these: Knocked Up, Failure to Launch, Hall Pass, Old School, or the Jackass series.

All the leading male characters are presented as expendable losers usually incapable...

Network Awesome

The Church of Satan Interviewed by Televangelist Bob Larson: Not the Conversation You Think It Is (VIDEO)

Network Awesome | Posted May 25, 2012

By Kristen Bialik

In 1989, Reverend, televangelist and Founder of the International School of Exorcism Bob Larson sat down for a friendly interview with two people who represent everything he opposes in life. Those two people were Nikolas Schreck and his wife Zeena, daughter of Anton LaVey -- the founder...

Janet Murguía

A Disappointing Television Season for the Latino Community

Janet Murguía | Posted May 25, 2012

Last week, the Census Bureau released updated population numbers affirming once again that Latinos are America's largest and fastest-growing minority. There are now 52 million of us residing in the U.S.--nearly one in five Americans. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that more than half of...

Arianna Huffington

Help Me Nominate Five Glamour Women of the Year

Arianna Huffington | Posted May 25, 2012

As an advisory board member of Glamour Women of the Year, I have the privilege of nominating five inspiring women -- or groups of women -- who have made an impact in 2012. And I'd love to hear your suggestions.

Please use the comments section to share the...

Ericka Andersen

20 Conservative Pinterest Accounts You Should Follow

Ericka Andersen | Posted May 24, 2012

It's an old joke: "I only read books with pictures." In reality, the visual is the keeper of the attention span -- especially on your computer screen. That's why Pinterest has taken middle class America by storm, granting people noncommittal, endless window shopping for gorgeous homes, delicious meals, designer purses...

Robert Koehler

The Pits of Hell

Robert Koehler | Posted May 24, 2012

This week's NATO summit on the future of the war in Afghanistan probably did not get to the matter of burn pits or abandoned latrines.

These are the details of hell. They are also our legacy, in Afghanistan, in Iraq ... wherever we employ our military to pursue our...

Tom Engelhardt

How to Forget on Memorial Day

Tom Engelhardt | Posted May 24, 2012

Whistling Past the Graveyard of Empires

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com

It’s the saddest reading around: the little announcements that dribble out of the Pentagon every day or two -- those terse, relatively uninformative death notices: rank; name; age; small town, suburb, or second-level city of...

Richard Schiffman

When Reporters Were Allegedly Attacked in Chicago, the Rights of All of Us Were Violated

Richard Schiffman | Posted May 24, 2012

Earlier this week, over 40 U.S. servicemen dressed in army fatigues and Navy uniforms handed their medals back to the NATO brass who were gathered in Chicago for their annual Summit Conference. Or rather, they tried to hand them back, but the generals wouldn't take them. So the...

Ru Freeman

Ted Conover: On Traveling and Being Free Behind Bars

Ru Freeman | Posted May 24, 2012

Eight years after Ted Conover's book, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Random House, 2000), came out, a Pew report found that 1 in 100 Americans were behind bars. Although the overall prison population has declined in each of the last three years under...

Annette Insdorf

Cannes Celebrates Philip Kaufman With Hemingway & Gellhorn

Annette Insdorf | Posted May 25, 2012

It's no surprise that Philip Kaufman -- perhaps the most European of American filmmakers -- was drawn to the passionate story of Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. Kaufman is a consummate adapter of complex novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Right Stuff, as well as...

Karen Dalton-Beninato

I Heard the News Today, Oh Boy: Times-Picayune Down to Semi-Weekly

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted May 24, 2012

We're about to be awash in articles about the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper shrinking down to thrice weekly publication, and its web site NOLA.com morphing into yet another entity. The collective industy coverage by reporters dwarfs the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry, or when streaming...

Remy M. Maisel

It Turns Out, We Can Indeed Haz Super PAC: Part I

Remy M. Maisel | Posted May 25, 2012

It was a rather non-traditional second night Passover Seder as my uncle and legal advisor Raymond Ragues (of Ragues PLLC) and I nudged Elijah's Cup out of the way and spread out FEC Form 1 on the dining room table.

"You mean this is really, really it?" I...

Rep. Jim McGovern

Rescuing 'We, the People'

Rep. Jim McGovern | Posted May 24, 2012

Defenders of the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United and the ascendant corporate rights doctrine that underlies it must be getting nervous.

Why else would George Will resort to arguing, as he so outrageously does ("Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights", May 6) that the bipartisan...

Mike Lux

Bain and the Inside-the-Beltway Gang

Mike Lux | Posted May 25, 2012

When I worked in the Clinton White House, I was always struck by how far off the conventional wisdom usually was in terms of how President Clinton's big speeches played with the public. For the State of the Union and other big speeches, there was almost an exact inverse reaction...

All posts from 05.26.2012 < 05.25.2012