I'm really grateful for that petition asking for changes to Merida, Disney's newest heroine/princess, because I was looking at her and heck, she's got a bow and arrow! She could poke someone's eye out with that thing, or hurt an animal. I'm a vegetarian and the latter would...

Like the other 18-billion women who have watched Dove's viral video/emo-tisement, "Real Beauty Sketches," I was moved to tears by its message: ladies, you are not quite as unattractive as you think.

If you haven't seen it, then welcome to our fair planet and let me tell...

Mad Men is back and it brings with it some reminders: that the 1960s have an awful lot for which to answer; that Megan Draper is easily the most annoying fictional female on television since Carrie Bradshaw.

It also brought, in the season six premiere, an answer to...

Ten years ago, the war in Iraq began and at the time, I was taking conversational French classes. Two nights a week our teacher led us in discussions about a wide variety of topics: Americans are stupid; George Bush is stupid; plus, he's as bad as Saddam; also he's as...

Are Italians just Greeks with better fashion designers?

After the elections held Sunday and Monday, one could be forgiven for asking. For all the talk of confusing results, the message Italians have sent with their votes is clear: we reject the necessary though painful economic reform and austerity measures...

Do I really want to live in a world in which France is a moral and military leader?
I began to ask this question last July, when newly elected French President Francois Hollande spoke at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Rafle du Vel...