While New Yorkers struggle to understand the ghastly gang assault carried out against three gay men in the Bronx, People magazine catalogs a year of infamous bullying cases and our Supreme Court labors over the free speech rights of preacher Fred Phelps, who considers...

Flip through the magazines in your doctor's office or click through the talk shows on television and you're destined to find the phenomenon called "Snooki" variously lampooned, mocked and ridiculed. Comedian/actor Zach Galifianakis walks onto the set of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" covered with lipstick kisses and declares that he "ran...

Soon the limousines will begin their parade to Lincoln Center, delivering celebrities and industry insiders to the spectacle that is fashion week in New York City. Photographers and video crews will let the rest of us catch glimpses of the styles on television or the internet. They let us in...