As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange play out in the international media, one convention of the coverage merits serious scrutiny.
Just when it seemed that America's "Homeland Security state" could not get more surreal, the US Transportation Security Administration has rolled out a costly Scylla and Charybdis at major airports.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's government has announced some of the most draconian public-sector cuts any developed country government has ever attempted.
Glamorizing single motherhood is not realistic, but it allows female pop culture to express a revenge fantasy at all the potential husbands and fathers who walked away, or who wanted the sex but not the kids and the tuition bills.
Nowhere is this tension more visible today than in the struggle for the political soul of the Tea Party. Some of the same Christian fundamentalist elements are seeking to absorb -- some would say take over -- the originally non-sectarian Tea Party.
I confess: I do it, too. Like most Western women, I do it regularly, and it is a guilty pleasure every time. It is hard to listen to one's conscience when one is faced with so much incredible temptation.
This year's Cannes Film Festival was filled with tales of ordinary people. This is a real cinema of humility -- the directors again and again have chosen to take seriously the struggles of ordinary people and find the heroism or tragedy therein.
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