President George W. Bush had a female First Lady and a woman as Secretary of State, but NBC's Brian Williams on Wednesday night hailed, as the fulfillment of President Barack Obama's promise of “change,� how he has a “power duo� in a woman First Lady and a female Secretary of State. Williams...

A majority of Florida’s Cuban-Americans, including many former hard-liners, have come to oppose a U.S. embargo strategy that has proved futile over the decades. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March 11, 2009 Bill Puts Brakes on Mexican Trucks March 11, 2009 Sanford and ‘Some’ M...

Filed under: OpEd, TV 101, Reality-Free Because I tend to hang out with mostly hobos and philosophy majors, about 90% of my conversations wind up in hypotheticals about the kind of superpower I would most want. While I don't yet have an answer to that worked out, I have figured out the superpower I ...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. 1) Hell’s Kitchen: Both Bret Thorn and Steve Cuozzo of the Post report on a new massive eatery from Simon Oren (Pigalle, L’Express, Nice Matin, etc). The former writes: “A 15,000-square-foot space at 450 West 33rd Street (at Tent...

  Hillary Clinton told everyone about falling in love with Bill Clinton. Of course, they only want to hear about how she fell out of love with Bill Clinton. By the way, where did Rielle Hunter get the name Frances Bean from? Young women mistakenly think men want potential female partners to dri...

Just about everyone who has been through college has stories about crazy professors. I'll tell you a couple of mine. My first encounter with one came in my second year of community college, in a required course focusing on several thinkers who shaped the modern world including Darwin, Marx, Toynbee,...

One of the many, many middle-aged couples who own socialist sex boutiques in LA—a demographic that’s actually the plurality of Andrew Sullivan’s readers—would like a business/pleasure bailout please. [Daily Dish] At this thing called a “Defending the American Dream Summit”...

Begging the increasingly salient question: devious realist payback or total fucking amateur hour? Officials in Jerusalem are quietly scratching their heads in wonderment as to why the White House did not release an official statement condemning yesterday's tractor terrorist rampage here, the third a...

* Much like everything else so far, the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts are stumbling out of the gates. The administration presented Russia with a reset button, which is cute because a) they mistranslated the word “reset” for “overcharge,” (and do they really ...

Hillary Clinton’s media savvy was on full display Saturday during an appearance on the Turkish equivalent of “The View.” Dishing on family and fashion, Clinton was by all accounts a hit in a country where only 9 percent view the U.S. favorably. MSNBC: Christian Science Monitor: Cli...