Waity Katie's Ladies
For most of Kate Middleton's public life, the term lady-in-waiting served as the linchpin for cruelly punning headlines about her slow-as-molasses-in-January romance with Prince William. Then,...
View Article"The 2012 Elections Begin Here"
Just when Sarah Palin was starting to seem as enthusiastic about running for president as Britney Spears is about learning new choreography, Palin traveled to Wisconsin, land of union unrest, to...
View ArticleThe Next Queen of England?
After months of reading Kate Middleton coverage, the descriptor of the soon-to-be-princess that pops first into my mind is "correct." Her clothes are always correct, her proportions are correct, her...
View ArticleA Brief History of Beyonce's Female Empowerment Anthems
One recent evening, I found myself arguing with a couple of male friends over when and why you call someone in her twenties a girl versus a woman. The discussion began because I poked light fun at...
View ArticlePalin Tells Media To Stay...
It's been a conspiracy-ridden few weeks in American politics, culminating in Wednesday's White House birth certificate reveal. Sarah Palin, having re-weathered her own Trig-birther conspiracy last...
View ArticleCondoleezza Rice on George W. Bush's "Curious Mind"
This weekend's New York Times Magazine will feature an interview with Condoleeza Rice in which the interviewer managed to avoid asking the former secretary of state about her reasons for being single...
View ArticleMore on the Women Inside Bin Laden's Compound
On The New Yorker 's news blog, the magazine's Steve Col l has a rundown on more details behind the Osama Bin Laden story, including some speculation on who the women inside the compound may have...
View ArticleBin Laden Used Wife as "Human Shield," Says White House
Update, May 3, 2011: The White House has since issued an updated statement saying that the woman killed was not in fact Bin Laden's wife, nor was he using her as a human shield. Yet more detail on the...
View ArticleThe Mrs. Bin Ladens
More details have emerged this morning on who was inside the Abbottabad* complex where Osama Bin Laden was killed on Sunday. The White House has corrected an erroneous earlier statement from...
View Article"No Pussy-Footing," Sarah Palin Tells Obama
With Osama Bin Laden captured, it's a new day in American foreign policy. Accordingly, Sarah Palin's given her foreign-policy team a makeover: She's replaced the neocon advisers who were a holdover...
View ArticleInked for Mom
When it comes to honoring one's mother, there are the things you do—the flowers you might have ordered for this Sunday—and, just as important, the things you don't do: I'd like to remind my own sainted...
View ArticleReality Bites
The sun never sets on the Palin reality TV empire: Yesterday brought news that Bristol Palin will star in a 10-episode series on BIO (formerly the Biography Channel) following America's "most famous...
View ArticleVogue Is Now Embarrassed by Its Asma al-Assad profile
Back in February, in the early days of the Arab Spring, Vogue went to press with an unbelievably tone-deaf profile of the Syrian dictator's wife, Asma al-Assad, that touted her chic freshness...
View ArticleThey're Dropping Like Flies
Since we last checked in, Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump have both officially announced that they won't be running for the Republican presidential nomination, leaving Sarah Palin as the potential GOP...
View ArticleAre Women Really Going To Be "Sideshows" in the 2012 Election?
Writing in yesterday’s Politico , Dee Dee Myers says that after a couple of election cycles in which women figured prominently, it’s shaping up to be a rough political 2012 for the fairer sex: "In the...
View Article"Fire in the Belly"
Sarah Palin might be tweeting less than in days of yore, but that doesn't necessarily mean she cares about politics any less. At least that's the implication of her appearance on Fox News last night,...
View ArticleThe Case—Please Hear Me Out—Against the Em Dash
According to the Associated Press Stylebook— Slate's bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related—there are two main prose uses—the abrupt change and the series within a phrase—for the em...
View ArticleSarah Palin, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
The rap on Sarah Palin lately has been that she wants to be a celebrity, not a politician. But it seems Palin thinks she can combine both-and launching a presidential campaign with a movie is the key...
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