The New York Times reported yesterday that Christian conservatives were gratified by John McCain's choice to run with a pro-lifer who married her boyfriend when she got pregnant out of wedlock and whose 17-year-old daughter is marrying her boyfriend now that she too is pregnant out of wedlock. I'm a...

As the hours tick by while interested observers of the XM/Sirius digital radio merger await word on final approval by the FCC, it may be worthwhile to wonder how in the heck we even got here. We're holding our collective breath, but aren't we supposed to be laughing?

The merger...

Yesterday the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the state of Arizona was wrong to ban the "Choose Life" specialty license plate, citing free speech. Arizona "clearly denied the application based on the nature of the message," wrote Judge Richard Tallman in the 3-0 ruling. You won't get...

There are some bills you make an effort never to add up. The annual cost of your daily latte habit. The difference between what your health insurance covers now and what it used to before you had to switch carriers. And how much you're spending on childcare so you can...

I'm an Outside magazine junkie and, I hate to admit, an even worse Everest junkie, so I was excited to see that the September issue is titled "The Everest Disaster: Ten Years Later." This was going...

With Dubya making new and more flabbergasting gaffes by the day, I've decided it's time to stop being ashamed of my strategy for increasing the number of people in the U.S. disposed to vote against him and his ilk: I'm brainwashing my 11-year-old daughter to be a Democrat.

I...

I can't believe it's happened for the second time--the little-used name my husband and I carefully chose for our baby has jumped from obscurity to ubiquity in one lousy year. Ava. Even I'm sick of hearing it.

The first time was understandable. Rookie mistake. It was 1994 and I...