5 Best Friday Columns
How Kagan is like many single women, how feeding the poor and then forcing them to diet looks silly, and more
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Today in show business news: Not many people watched the American Idol finale, The Voice is still going strong, and Pete Campbell takes to the stage.
How Kagan is like many single women, how feeding the poor and then forcing them to diet looks silly, and more
The bipartisan consensus: That was awesome
Americans gauge U.S. chances against England, observers marvel at high-profile absences on Brazilian team
A woman calls Obama "a hottie with a smokin' little body," Twitter explodes
Sportswriters line up to debate his future
Lewis Black slams Beck for playing six degrees of Adolf Hitler
Nicholas Kristof on Pakistan and Times Square, Doug Glanville on outspoken athletes, and more
Maureen Dowd on Hamid Karzai, Steven Pearlstein's deficit-reduction plan, and more
Now with embedded tweets!
Kagan, Karzai, oil, and Greece
No followers? I can say whatever I want?! Here we go...
The mantle of redemption is eagerly awarded to Dallas Braden
Paul Krugman on sex, drugs, and the oil spill, Susie Orbach on male-mannequin emaciation, and more
Living, learning, farting, growing
Too many stars and special effects make a Tony Stark a dull boy
Since there was no bomb, it's OK to joke
MarketWatch's media columnist floats the idea
Racial profiling vs. affirmative action, books vs. iPad, vinegar diets vs. happiness
Judge for yourself
Not quite the end of the world as we know it
Who wouldn't be having a bad day?
Also he admits: "I am a whiner"
Cancer, guns, nuclear meltdowns -- this may be the scariest roundup yet
Stephen's desk is his
The perilous future of an iconic weekly magazine
You couldn't have paid $106.5 million for something good?
Nanjala Nyabola gives an African view of the Rhodes, Kathleen Parker ponders GOP-Tea Party dynamics, and more
The Daily Show outdoes itself
David Brooks on the limits of policy, Marc Cooper on an atheist justice, and more
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