The intellectual difficulty is that human social behavior is like an opera. Evolution provides the floorboards, but the arias, the drama, the story are most directly understood in terms of culture and history.
Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment
The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.
Vamsee Juluri | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
It may be true that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promise rather than achievement, but let us not forget that there is at least one point on which he has already proven himself -- civility.
Robert Siciliano | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
Technology keeps providing new opportunities for harassment: social media identity theft, cell phone abuse, online bullying, the list goes on.
Christine Huang | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
No one likes to be talked down to -- whether by a suitor or a company. Speaking with humor and candor will sometimes work; but in general, what we want and expect is intelligent messaging.
David Latt | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
Jay Leno killed Southland but whether NBC is the better for that remains to be seen.
John McQuaid | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
The era of the media-as-honest broker is over. The Washington Post and other establishment outlets just haven't realized it yet. But this is actually a good thing.
Eric Deggans | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
We have not yet, as a pop culture-breathing, tabloid-fueled nation, decided how we feel about powerful older guys seducing the young women who work for them.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.
Steve Ross | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
I have noticed over the past few years a troubling trend entering the picture, a trend that is encapsulated in the blogs posted by Chip O'Brien and Mark Coker.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Are the Republicans and the media finally discovering a critique that hits Obama at the core of his personality?
Brian Ross | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Let us finally put to rest one myth: Ted Williams was not frozen by his evil son, John Henry Williams.
Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
In the last year, I joined the Board of Directors of Women's Expressive Theatre and Risk Takers. How could I not get involved? I have a daughter and I want her to know that she is unstoppable.
Rob Kall | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
If the US government invests directly in journalists, so that their writings and reports can be freely used by any media organization or site, that investment will yield big results.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
The mom factor has been one of the major underpinnings behind some of TV's most successful morning hosts (think Katie Couric and Joan Lunden).
Julie Farby | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media
While Sarah's juicy, soon-to-be-released memoir (do I smell Pulitzer?) may be soaring up the bestseller lists, her success on the lecture circuit hasn't exactly fared as well.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media
Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 10.01.2009 | Denver
As I picked up several copies of the shrunken final edition of the Rocky Mountain News, I felt a sadness not only for that issue, but also for the physical transformation of the newspaper.
Disgrasian | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
As much as the details of Felicia Lee's life and death would seem sensational enough for widespread media coverage, unlike Annie Le's murder, Lee's has largely failed to capture the public's imagination.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
Newspapers seem to be clinging to blandness as a viable business model in an exciting new world of opinions available to their potential customers -- to their detriment. And then they wonder why they're failing.
Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
I'm so glad we have the Internet to feed us so, so much well-edited, well-culled information.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
Our blindness is voluntary. In an overheating world, literally and figuratively, complacent citizens shape whatever reality suits them best.
Dan Agin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media