Facebook, the mean girls and me

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

Obama back over 50 in Gallup poll

The president's approval rating rises above a symbolically important threshold

Bailout hater goes over to the dark side

Economist Willem Buiter has said some very hurtful things about Citigroup. But now he's on the company's payroll

Bigotry wins in Switzlerland

By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world

Supreme Court sides with Obama on detainee photos

The nation's highest court overturns a ruling that would have forced the images' release

Rumsfeld order allowed bin Laden's escape

A new Senate report says that American military leadership refused reinforcements to block al-Qaida leader's path

On housing crisis, Wall Street feels no shame

While Americans suffer, glutted banks refuse to renegotiate mortgages or scale back bonuses

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On "The Road" with John Hillcoat

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

Are Canadian prostitution laws unconstitutional?

Sex workers say Canada's criminal code threatens their liberty and security

Are Canadian prostitution laws unconstitutional?

Sex workers say Canada's criminal code threatens their liberty and security

Obama back over 50 in Gallup poll

The president's approval rating rises above a symbolically important threshold

Bailout hater goes over to the dark side

Economist Willem Buiter has said some very hurtful things about Citigroup. But now he's on the company's payroll

The face of rotted Washington

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

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

Werner Herzog among the demented iguanas

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