With tutu lace, a pacifier and a winning personality, you too could be Baby Miss of the year.

19 former Miss America winners are calling for the former Fox News host to resign from her new role

The first Indian winner sparks a slew of hateful -- and absurdly inaccurate -- racism

The veteran Democrat and Clinton supporter attributes Sarah Palin's poise to "her beauty pageant training."

Muslim hardliners have protested the pageant

A leaked memo confirms a nefarious plot to infiltrate America using the one weapon we can't resist: Total hotness

It started as cheesecake, detoured into diversity, and now resembles the GOP convention. Who says the Miss America Pageant doesn't reflect America?

Once a year, the Miss America extravaganza recaptures Atlantic City's old glory. Beverly Gage portrays the pageant's -- and the city's -- past and present.

The knockout Mexican thriller "Miss Bala" argues that life in Tijuana isn't as bad as you think -- it's worse

The inside story of how a Harvard law student beat out her more bodacious sisters for the Miss America crown.

The ugly side of beauty influencing: Tarte furor reflects ongoing slighting of influencers of color

Dethroned Miss California, who says the pageant asked her to pose for Playboy, gets a passionate defense from NOM.

Tracy Clark-Flory wonders whether a beauty pageant is the best way to raise awareness and help women.

The beauty pageant won't stand for contestants in racy pictures -- unless it commissions the photos itself

Steve Carell runs off with our hearts in this sweet-tempered dysfunctional-family road movie.