The Gift America Needs Most: Manufacturing
The gift this country needs most this holiday season is an economy built on a solid foundation, one that will provide middle class, family-supporting jobs now and into the future.
The gift this country needs most this holiday season is an economy built on a solid foundation, one that will provide middle class, family-supporting jobs now and into the future.
Mona Eltahawy | Posted 12.21.2009 | World
Who needs Ken when Burka Barbie can have Angry Bearded Muslim Man as her companion? (I want my share of royalties for that idea).
Carol Hoenig | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books
When other girls were asking for Barbie dolls, I was wishing for a typewriter, one that would actually tap out a world of my own creation.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
The average woman in the U.S. is 5'4" and around 142 lbs. She is not modeling anything.
blogs.static.mentalfloss.com | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
Retail giant Wal-Mart is the world's largest public company, and whether or not you're a fan of shopping at the House that Sam Walton Built, you've go...
Harry Moroz | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is generating quite a bit of controversy for a measure designed to protect children from lead and other unsafe consumer products.
Zandile Blay | Posted 09.27.2009 | Style
My heart and my mind are in the midst of a fierce battle: to love or loathe this YouTube video. My mind is in shock, my heart is in love. While they ...
Catie Lazarus | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
Sarah, how creepy is it that NOW is jumping on your bandwagon? Trying to be friends with the alpha popular princess by sweeping abortion, pay parity, stem cell research under the rug!
Eric Shutt | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
The social spaces of yesterday are being replaced by a new blend of digital pixels and material places.
Al Jazeera | Melissa Chan | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
China's economic resilience during the global downturn is attracting a growing number of American companies. One of them is the toymaker Mattel, make...
Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 06.27.2009 | Style
The Ming Lee doll was adopted from a Chinese orphanage and flown to America to join her celebrity family and meet her Ethiopian and Cambodian siblings.
Elizabeth Birch | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living
We can do better than feed a continuous diet of dolls that celebrate eating disorders to our kids, and then wonder why they are expressing a desire to diet as early as third grade.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living
West Virginia is concerned with beauty and the European Union is concerned with ugly.
Scott Diel | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
I imagine manufacturers' warehouses full of defective appliances awaiting shipment to Eastern Europe where many customers haven't yet a clue they're supposed to be king. Does this, in fact, happen?
Janice Taylor | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living
I miss you, Barbie. I really do, and I apologize for abruptly packing you and Ken up into your dollhouse and selling you to the kid down the street for movie and gasoline money.
Chip Conley | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business
Barack's Inaugural address basically told us it's time to grow up. I guess he was speaking to me and my classmates who've been "kids in the candy store" for most of our adult life.
Nina Hartley | Posted 04.06.2009 | Style
Who could have known we would both end up as Rorschach tests for changing notions of femininity, alternately blamed for everything from anorexia to promiscuity and hailed as icons of sexual liberation.
The Big Money | By Amy Tennery and Win Rosenfeld | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home
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Wendy Braitman | Posted 04.05.2009 | Style
Barbie will turn 50 on March 9. She has never married. Think about that for a minute. The ideal, American pin-up girl is a spinster.
GlobalPost.com | Emily Rauhala | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
HONG KONG -- Tall, blond, impossibly large breasts. Barbie stands out anywhere, but in China, she really turns heads. And that, of course, is exactl...
DesignBoom.com | Posted 03.09.2009 | Style
The doll is sold in 150 countries, has represented more than 50 nationalities and ethnicities. 'totally hair barbie' was released in 1992. the doll's ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 02.09.2009 | Style
Barbies just got a whole lot creepier thanks to revelations about the doll's designer Jack Ryan in Jerry Oppenheimer's new book "Toy Monster: The Big,...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment
SNL-veteran Amy Poehler recently launched a new web series called Smart Girls At The Party. Sponsored by Barbie, the show features Poehler as a 60 M...
AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 09.26.2008 | Business
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal jury awarded Mattel Inc. $100 million in damages Tuesday after a serious girl fight between the house of Barbie an...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business