Essence's Audrey Edwards and Salon's Joan Walsh square off on whether it's racism or realism when black mothers say they'd rather their sons not marry white.

A blogger rips apart Scooter Libby's erotic novel.

A master memoirist on the human-beast connection, from pampered pets and hated pests to girls and their horses

A handful of false claims help the right talk about "legitimate rape" -- and lots of them are from TV and movies

"Sixteen Candles," 30 years old this week, captured the angst of high school existence like few films of its ilk

A collection of her most moving statements since becoming one of the planet's leading education activists

The “Suits” actress is ascending to a place millions of black women never thought possible. That's a big deal.

She's pop music's privileged Chicken Little — but she stood strong when the sky actually fell

As the weather heats up, so do abstinence advocates over chastity.

I have cheated on every guy I've been with, so my new boyfriend's infidelity fetish seemed perfect -- at first

The N.Y. Times pens a vicious, condescending profile of the "Jersey Shore" star -- and misses what makes her great

The New York congressional candidate has been criticized by conservatives like Tomi Lahren and Ben Shapiro

As her murder case reopens in Italy, I can't stop thinking about my own reckless past and the dangers that I dodged

Mary Elizabeth Williams reviews 'She's All That,' starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook and Matthew Lillard.

I went along with his fetish, because it sounded like a rock-star dream. I wanted power, but I got trapped instead