Documentaries are huge. Their perverse cousins are nipping at their heels.

Readers respond to Jake Tapper's "Brains 1, Barbie 0" and Amy Benfer's "Bringing the War Home."

Miss California gets to keep her crown for good.

Boston University sophomore Olivia Culpo took the place of last year's winner, Leila Lopes of Angola

Miss California pageant organizers say the dethroned beauty queen has failed to pay back a loan for breast implants

The controversial beauty queen loses her crown. How long before she's hosting "Fox & Friends"?

Questions about race and politics seem designed to shame and embarrass contestants and then go viral

Instead of cheesecake poses, techies on parade answer questions like "What's a meta tag?" in a geek pageant that the media is eating up.

Texas A&M's annual ritual, which killed 12 this year, is not just a football rally. It's a homoerotic rite of passage.

The runner-up from California says her stance on same-sex unions cost her the beauty pageant crown.

It's encouraging that Miss Texas spoke out against Trump's response to white supremacy. But why does it stand out?

And some not-quite-ugly-enough finalists

Vanity Fair gives four of his "other women" the full star treatment

Miss Nevada's out, Tara Conner's wobbly reign continues, and we're left wondering: What are beauty queens for, anyway?