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Role models

Quote of last night

Besides "No way. No how. No McCain."

By Lynn Harris August 27, 2008

Sarah Haskins on chick flicks

We don't care if we look like pathetic fangirls -- Sarah Haskins just keeps being too funny to resist.

By Kate Harding August 22, 2008

The Democratic convention just got less boisterous

A brief eulogy for Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman elected to Congress in Ohio.

By Rebecca Traister August 21, 2008

It's a Maddow Maddow Maddow Maddow world!

Rachel gets her own show! Rachel gets her own show! Rachel gets her own show!

By Rebecca Traister August 19, 2008

The hemline effect

With the economy in the toilet, one mother cheers the return of modest clothing.

By Judy Berman August 18, 2008

Quote of the day

A witness to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's wedding wishes opponents of gay marriage could have seen it.

By Kate Harding August 18, 2008

Girl crush: Julia Child

America's favorite chef was also a top-secret WWII spy.

By Judy Berman August 14, 2008

Girl crush: Dara Torres

The Olympic swimmer is "doing it for all the 40-year-old moms out there." Swoon.

By Kate Harding August 11, 2008

Beyond the pale

L'Oréal denies lightening Beyoncé's skin color in an advertisement.

By Kate Harding August 11, 2008

Losing her religion

Televangelist Joel Osteen's wife sued for anxiety, hemorrhoids and shaken faith.

By Judy Berman August 8, 2008

Olympian bodies, mommy edition

Some female athletes find that pregnancy and childbirth improve their game.

By Kate Harding August 5, 2008

Quote of the day

Teri Garr is a loose cannon -- in the best possible way.

By Sarah Hepola July 25, 2008

Estelle Getty, thank you for being a friend

The Golden Girl died this morning at the age of 84.

By Sarah Hepola July 22, 2008

All hail Kay Ryan

The newly appointed poet laureate aims to "prevent all bad poetry from being published during [her] reign."

By Laura Miller July 17, 2008

Is a black princess that hard to imagine?

Disney rethinks its first African-American heroine amid accusations of racism.

By Judy Berman July 17, 2008

The bikini theory

Helen Mirren proves that winning an Oscar for playing a British monarch 20 years your senior doesn't mean you can't rock a two-piece suit.

By Catherine Price July 17, 2008

Ingrid Betancourt freed

After six years in captivity, the political reformer is rescued from Marxist guerrillas in Colombia.

By Sarah Hepola July 2, 2008

A crack in the Army's glass ceiling

Pending Senate approval, Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody will become America's first female four-star general.

By Catherine Price June 24, 2008

So was it a "pact," or more of an informal agreement?

Controversy continues to stir over the supposed "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School.

By Catherine Price June 24, 2008

Girl crush: Velvet d'Amour

A celebration of the 5-foot-8, 300-pound model who is anything but "the staid, asexual, catalogue, muumuu chick."

By Kate Harding June 20, 2008

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