My second novel was rejected and I'm in despair

I spent five years writing this, and now my editor's ditched me!

FBI paid controversial blogger for help

Report: Agency paid blogger -- charged with death threats against judges -- to report on hate groups

4 police officers shot dead at cafe

Washington officers were reportedly ambushed

Facebook, the mean girls and me

At 34 years old, I finally feel like a popular seventh-grader. How sad is that?

Obama dinner crashers peddling interview

TV exec: Would-be reality show couple asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars

"Mentalist," "Lie to Me": The truth hurts

Simon Baker and Tim Roth are charismatic and coy as TV mind readers, but the cheese is still spread a little thick

On "The Road" with John Hillcoat

The Aussie director talks about Viggo Mortensen, Coke, cannibalism and adapting Cormac McCarthy's bleak parable

Ruth Reichl has better salsa

The former Gourmet editor lets us poke around in her refrigerator

Woods cancels meeting with police -- again

Instead, he issues statement on his Web site

The crazy, irrational beliefs of Muslims

Tom Friedman explains the real problem: stupid Muslims think the U.S. is about war and aggression.

The face of rotted Washington

Evan Bayh demands more debt-financed war - fought by others - while boasting that he's a stern "deficit hawk."

Loved to bytes

A man marries his dream girl, who lives inside a Japanese video game Video

Maybe healthcare reform bill isn't too long after all

Republicans have made a big deal out of the length of Democrats' legislation, but there's some perspective missing

I'm thankful I'm not President Obama

Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course

The wrong response to ClimateGate

Whining about malicious invasions of privacy won't cut it in the war over global warming science

Werner Herzog among the demented iguanas

The legendary German eccentric on his most American film, the dirty, profane, dazzling non-remake "Bad Lieutenant"