When Bristol Palin first took the dance floor in the premiere episode of Season 11 of Dancing with the Stars, few expected the teen-mom-turned-abstinence-advocate to perform particularly well. But in the first few weeks, she proved her critics wrong, turning in decent dances even...

This post is part of the "Modern Male Brains & the Young, Powerful Women Who Love Them" series compiled by Dr. Louann Brizendine, neuroscientist and author of the recent book, The Male Brain. The series explores how the next generation of women relates to love while balancing...

When my parents instilled in me the belief that I could do anything a boy could do, I'm not sure they really knew what they were going to get. They probably pictured me playing baseball (I turned to ballet) and taking calculus (I chose car repair), but what they got...

There is one reason, and one reason alone, that Kate Gosselin survived to dance her resoundingly terrible fox trot this week: she's a mom. Actually, it's probably more fair to say that she's a Professional Mom, in that her "stardom" is based, utterly, on having made the apparently radical choice...

Tom intoned in the opening of this week's results show, "For one, it will end happily ever after, but for one, it will just end!" And, with that, they went straight to the results!

Aiden & Edyta are safe, as are Erin & Maks. Erin exclaimed, "Thank God!"

Len's...

Len called it the night of the "Greatest Stories Ever Danced," but between Kate Gosselin's new hair, Pam's white corset, Chelsie's Cleopatra wig, and Edyta's mermaid-meets-stripper outfit, it looked more like Slut-o-ween came early this year. Luckily, Niecy Nash and Louis Van Amstel classed it up by using their dance...

Watching Kate Gosselin's desperately "happy" smiles, her increasing levels of personal discomfort and, finally, her rehearsal fit-turned-crying-jag on Monday night's Dancing With The Stars made me realize one sad thing. No matter how many tummy-tucks, tooth veneers or hair extensions she gets to meet some external standard of beauty, she'll...

The newly-activist Supreme Court ruled today in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations in the United States have an absolute right to free speech that includes the right to run multi-million dollar advertising campaigns for or against candidates, just as Mark Green predicted after oral arguments last December....

On Monday, the anonymous blogger Security Crank noticed something interesting: all the U.S. and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan seemingly kill exactly 30 people every time. How can that be?

Security Crank documented no less than 12 occasions in which news reports, relying on field commanders' estimates, noted that exactly...

Senate Democrats today turned back efforts by anti-abortion activists to insert language into the health care bill that would have significantly restricted women's access to abortion services if they relied on any form of federal subsidy for their health insurance. The amendment, introduced by Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson -- a...

In the eight years since the United States began bombing Afghanistan in retaliation for the attacks of 9/11 perpetrated by Osama bin Laden -- who had been given safe harbor by the Talibani leaders of the country -- more than 1,500 men and women of the coalition forces, mostly American,...

In 1977, Roman Polanski offered to take pictures of a 13-year-old girl for French Vogue. He then gave her champagne and drugs, insisted she remove her clothes, and raped her. He has been carefully tending to his alternative mythology of that night ever since.

The victim's grand jury testimony is...

Wednesday, Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to lay out a more specific vision for health care reform, spur compromise and shore up support within his own party for meaningful legislation.

But if the booing, heckling, legislation-waving conservatives -- let alone their pre-canned statements of opposition -- are...

If the anti-choice movement has its way, the moment one sperm eats its way through an egg's outer shell would be the last moment in human development that wouldn't be covered by the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, it's a rather lucrative racket.

Wendy Norris...

Three years ago, a group of corporate advertisers informed ABC that they didn't want their commercials run during Air America programming. Media Matters reports that those companies will run ads during conservative shows.

In 2009, General Electric, Farmer's Insurance and Office Depot have financially supported Glenn Beck's racism and...