Politicians lie. The National Enquirer pays for information. The mainstream media is falling out of touch with America.

We hold these truths to be self evident.

And yet when all three of these variables collided in the perfect nexus of the John Edwards cheating affair, the resulting public shock and...

After Jenna Kern, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, decided to write an Op-Ed piece for Newsday questioning whether shock jocks and hate speech contributed to the recent murderous shooting spree in a U-U church in Tennessee, the haters started to come after her as well.

When I first arrived in Beijing, the only gold-digger stories I'd heard of were about Chinese girls who'd prick condoms with safety pins before they'd bed expats. Now, all that reaches my ears is talk of jin pai (gold medals). At events, Chinese fans only explode into applause when gold-medal...

If you're like 66.6% of Americans, your eyeballs are glued to the NBC coverage of the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008, and you're planning to Go for the Gold and watch all 3600 hours. But even for the most seasoned horizontal channel surfer, this task demands Olympian endurance achieved only through...

Back in June, at the height of the wedding season, I took part in two very important family events. First, I sat with my parents as they celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. With love and joy, they recounted the now well-told story about how they met, and also doled out...

I could sum up the entire difference between political parties by how they position themselves on Sirius Satellite Radio. The left wing channel is called, well, Left, while the right wing channel proudly wears the Patriot badge. Left vs Patriot. That truly says...

A psychologist friend of mine once explained to me his clinical technique. "I always listen for they [his patients] aren't talking about," he said. "Because that's where the action is." That rule of thumb works if you want to understand the political prosecutions by Bush's Justice Department in Alabama. Focus...

It's official. The Federal Communications Commission delivered its order on Wednesday lowering the hammer on Comcast for derailing Internet users' Web access and then pretending that the cable giant was doing nothing wrong.

The order, approved by a bipartisan FCC majority at the beginning of the month,...

A critical Republican campaign strategy is working when it comes to framing for the November election. Despite actual facts, media reporting increasingly reports that there is no difference of import between John "McSame" McCain and Barack Obama when it comes to the arenas of energy and Global Warming. Take

The Dark Knight, matching America's dark mood, has swiftly rocketed up to the #2 position on the all-time domestic box office list.

A lot of chatter about veeps, much more focus on the Olympics. There's one...

The political world is abuzz with the latest bit of tech gossip. Sometime soon, the Obama campaign is going to announce their pick for VP -- by text message. I thought it might be nice to look back and see where the mobile program first got its start in politics....

AUDIO BOOK: "Counselor, A Life at the Edge of History"

AUTHOR: Ted Sorensen ("Kennedy," "The Kennedy Legacy")
GENRE: Autobiography
LENGTH: 12 hours, abridged
PUBLISHER: Harper Audio
NARRATOR: Ted Sorensen

LOG LINE
Hardly at the edge, Ted Sorenson has been a central player...

Is Maureen Dowd a bit obsessed with the Clintons? These are the number of times that she has mentioned either Bill or Hillary in her last 12 columns.

As Mr. Dickens might say: It was the best of books, it was the worst of books. And the rest of it fits, too: It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was...

How can China and the International Olympic Committee be so, well... lame?

With both Burston Marsteller and Hill & Knowlton on retainer for the Beijing Olympic games you'd think China would have all its Peking ducks in a row. But they are flailing and a great example...

Observers of politics know they can count on at least one constant in presidential campaigns: Whenever the Republican candidate is down in the polls, he begins to complain about the media (Democrats do it sometimes too, but not nearly as often). But when that candidate is John McCain, one would...