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They lost me at the word "women."
In a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation's attention turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush.
As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn't ... fill in the blank:
CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the reporter said to the novelist: Why bother to make stuff up?
You know the feeling. You wake up filled with dread but, still groggy, you can't put your finger on the reason.
The recent kerfuffle over a secret recording of Sen.
The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration's push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown.
The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects...
CAMDEN, S.C. — It isn't often that one gets to hear both the strains of "Dixie" and an African drum concert in the same public square.
No matter what Barack Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of his former political opponent.
The recent rape conviction of two teenagers, one of whom also distributed a photo and sent cruel text messages about their victim, has captured the "bystander effect" in graphic and nauseating detail.
Mariska Hargitay, better known as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Detective Olivia Benson, is the human intersection of life and art.
All things considered, I'd rather be in Rome. Isn't everyone?
The media love optics and no one understands this better than President Obama.
Excuse me while I roll my eyes over the latest "mommy war."
To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in.
If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person.
First they came for the drones.
RINO-hunting, the long popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When President Obama said in his State of the Union address that "This time is different," referring to his push for tighter gun-control laws, he wasn't just whistling Dixie.
Now is the time for all good women to pay homage to Betty Friedan, who 50 years ago wrote the game-changing manifesto "The Feminine Mystique."
We may never know exactly what happened in Benghazi the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but it's becoming increasingly clear that our response was short of...
When Burma's Zin Mar Aung was placed in solitary confinement for trying to organize students in 1999, Bill Clinton was president of the United States.
Polling that shows Americans favor women in combat by 2-to-1 is evidence only of the power of misinformation.
The new year has begun with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do?
It must be true what they say about women — that they are smarter, stronger, wiser and wilier than your average Joe.
My inner Pollyanna was basking in blissfulness, rolling in the hay of righteous rhetoric, backstroking through the sunny sibilance of aspiration.