It began and ended with a mother’s angst about being apart from her child for a whole weekend. The first time she tried to accomplish this feat, her daughter was 7 months old and still breast-feeding. more

Sanford. Edwards. Spitzer. Clinton. What do those names have in common? First of all, they’re the surnames of nationally prominent politicians, three of whom ran for president (both Clintons ran), two of whom once held U.S. Senate seats and one of whom served in Congress. more

It’s hard not to notice that Mad Men madness seems to be everywhere. In a big spread in Vanity Fair Magazine. In New York Magazine. As early-1960s styled Mad Men avatars pop up on Twitter and Facebook. more

From playing fictional roles on the silver screen and on the intimate medium of television, to the bloodsport known as American politics, criticism of the women who assume those roles have felt abundant lately. more

What started out as a dark comedy dramatizing a desperate, widowed soccer mom’s attempts to provide for her children and keep them in their cushy, California home by selling pot to fellow suburbanites, has, over the course of five seasons, devolved so far into the dangerous world of drugs and human trafficking that dealing a bag of weed at a 10-year-old’s soccer game now seems like innocent child’s play. more

Barring some kind of bombshell revelation, it seems inevitable that Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed by the Senate as the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Despite that reality, eyebrows were raised about some of the questions lawmakers posed to her during the Senate hearings, particularly regarding her demeanor and temperament as a judge, and whether the inquiries were made because she’s female. more

Harry Potter has been on my mind a lot recently. He’s been on the minds of a lot of other people as well. Why? Well, unless you have little to no contact with the outside world, you couldn’t help but notice that the sixth film based on the books about the fictional British boy-wizard has just came out more

Sarah Palin is, as Time Magazine’s Nancy Gibbs said, “a Technicolor Rorschach test.” What you think about her depends largely upon from which perspective you see the world. more

That’s the chief question which haunts the lead characters in the film Away We Go, starring The Office’s John Krasinski and Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph, who play an unmarried, thirtysomething couple about to become first-time parents. more

I feel as though I’ve been on a reality show binge lately, what with all the Jon & Kate and Raising Sextuplets madness. And for some reason, the Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood’s fourth season called out to me and made me watch it . . . against my better judgment. more