Do Pregnancy Films Make Good Date Movies?
What to Expect When You're Expecting, a movie with an ensemble cast of celebrities each depicting different versions of mommy-and-daddyhood, comes out in theaters Friday. So, this is a date movie, right?
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How to Date a Married Secret Service Agent
Wednesday's cover of the New York Daily News is kind of a big one, a first-person confession from a woman who claims to have dated and slept with Secret Service Agent Arthur Huntington well before his scandalous encounter with that Colombian prostitute. Oh, and she is not his wife.
Working on a Presidential Campaign Could Make You Fat, Married
Even as there are slow but steady steps forward in the way women's magazines talk to women, there are setbacks, like a recent offering from Glamour which we can add to the list of articles we wish journalists (female ones, at that) would stop writing for women.
Rebekah Brooks and Ina Drew: When Women in Power Are Punished
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DSK's Pretty Sure He's the Real Victim Here
What does a person do when they're angry about something that happened, something they may not be accepting full accountability for, something they may deny altogether? Sometimes, they play the victim card.
Cate Edwards Expected to Testify in Her Dad's Trial
On Monday, John Edwards' defense team began their case in his trial over the alleged violation of campaign finance laws. What's happened so far, and what can we expect?
How Does Obama Fare with His Career Advice to Women?
Overly generic or even blatantly sexist career advice to women has come under fire of late, from others and on this blog. How did President Obama do addressing a group of young female graduates at Barnard's commencement?
If We Are What We Read, Who Are We, Exactly?
According to research recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the book characters we love are the real-life characters we become.
Wannabe Grandparents Are Freezing Their Kids' Eggs
According to The New York Times, the latest baby trend appears to be wanna-be grandparents paying to freeze their daughters' eggs so that they can, down the road, indeed become grandparents. Should we be concerned?
Mad Women: Unhappy Thanksgiving
The title of Sunday night's Mad Men was "Dark Shadows," but let's call it by its more colloquial name. This episode was about that darkest of dysfunctional family holidays, the one with the turkey.
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Alternate 'Mad Men' Plots We're Rooting For
It has come to our attention that some people are getting bored with this season's Mad Men. Everyone's a critic, right? But it's in our power to make television whatever we want it to be. Here's our bids for some new directions.
The War on Brunch Is Just a War on Gentrification in Brunch Clothes
In preparation for the weekend, The New York Times dedicates a lot of words to New York City's so-called War on Brunch, a topic we discussed earlier this week.
Attachment Child Makes Unconvincing Argument for Attachment Parenting
The Time magazine cover on "attachment parenting" featuring a 26-year-old mom breast-feeding her nearly 4-year-old son—the one that we were all talking about Thursday—has made it to the Today show, along with the mom, Jamie Lynne Grumet, and her child, Aram.
John Edwards Dreamed of Being a Supreme Court Justice
Add this to John Edwards' many aspirations: Supreme Court Justice.
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The Race for the Next 'Hunger Games'
There is a triumvirate of success in the annals of Y.A. book history: Potter, Twilight, Hunger. What comes next?
Our Complicated Relationship with Breasts
The matter inflaming the Internet this Thursday is one of breasts. Particularly, a bare boob, tucked neatly into the mouth of a 3-year-old boy, on the cover of Time magazine.
John Edwards' Soap Opera Continues: Rielle Won't Testify, Edwards Cries
John Edwards' trial over campaign finance violations has gone on for some three weeks now, transporting us back to 2008 and exposing the darker side of the man who might have been president.
France's Unmarried First Lady Can Teach Us A Lot About Marriage
There's a new French president, and with him, a new French First Lady. But—shhh—they're not married.
America's Obsession With Pippa Middleton
America has a long tradition of being obsessed with royals, mostly because we don't have any of our own.
The Real War on Brunch in Williamsburg
Food blogs and local papers have been chewing over a something that gets us very, very nervous. They say there is a war on brunch.
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