Though many of us have barely recovered from our snow-filled winter nightmare, we are now facing the nightmare that summer weather brings.

I'm not talking about the heat. I'm talking about the pressure to get bathing suit ready.

If you do a google search for "Bikini Body," you will...

In the last few weeks I've learned a number of valuable lessons. Among them:

1) Apparently if you are poor, you should not expect to be taken seriously if you accuse someone who is not poor, of sexually assaulting you (or trying to).
2) Similarly, if you...

During a recent conversation with a friend, I was reminded that Mitt Romney and President Obama have more in common than their appreciation of universal health care.

Apparently they both have plenty of female (and male) admirers as well.

While the president was semi-cyberstalked by

In an election in which the name Donald Trump is tossed around as a "legitimate" (I use that word very loosely) candidate for president, nothing surprises me. Well almost nothing.

I will admit, however, to being somewhat surprised to hear who was declared the victor of the first...

In 2001 Elodie Gossuin lived every woman's nightmare. No, she didn't find out that the love of her life was cheating on her. Nor did she find out that she was losing her job.

She did find out, however, that someone was going to great lengths to convince the...

Sometimes the truth hurts -- especially when it's an embarrassing truth and someone calls you out on it in public. Gwyneth Paltrow, whose image, particularly in cyberspace, has taken quite a drubbing in the last year or two, recently called out her critics (or anyone who doesn't appear to be...

A question for you: A poor woman of color arrives at the office of her member of Congress to ask for help, explaining that she is nearing a financial breaking point. Barely able to support herself, she is finding it nearly impossible to support her family of seven, comprised of...

Okay, so I realize I'm technically a few days late for April Fool's, so I guess you can just call the headline above a big fat lie. Although give it a day or two and I'm afraid it may just come true. It's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility,...

Because clearly enough people haven't weighed in on Chris Brown's Good Morning America meltdown last week, I've decided to add my voice to the fray. The only real insight I have to offer on this debacle is a tip for Chris Brown's new publicist, since he recently

In the last couple of years our country has elected our first black president, and witnessed the appointments of our first Latina Supreme court justice and our first openly gay White House Social Secretary. After centuries marked by slavery, segregation and other forms of legalized inequality...

There are very few certainties in life, besides as they say, death and taxes, and the fact that the number of people who actually watch reality television will always be higher than the number who admit that they do.

But there is another. For every rape survivor, there is at...

We've come a long way since the first International Women's Day was celebrated 100 years ago. In the century since, women have gone further than we ever could have imagined, including all the way to space, and to the head of major industries, and of government right here on Earth....

From the tragedy in Arizona, to the uprisings in Egypt and Libya, 2011 has already produced some of the most important news stories of our lifetime. But based on quantity of media coverage, one news story reigns supreme over all others: the English royal wedding. Unlike the previously mentioned stories,...

When the president was enduring a particularly brutal round of criticism at the height of the health care debate, I mentioned to my mother that a friend said that the only way he'd have a shot at reelection was to personally capture Osama Bin Laden. My mom's reply? "That wouldn't...

While models from around the world are here in the Big Apple strutting their stuff for New York fashion week, a group of models halfway around the world narrowly escaped brutal punishment for doing the exact same thing.

In June of last year, seven male models...

"Show us your papers" has become the divisive de facto shorthand for critics of humane immigration policies, and in recent years for critics of our current president too. (In case you haven't heard, apparently some people believe President Obama may not have been born in this country.) But I'd like...

There's been a lot of discussion (bordering on hysteria) in recent years regarding the role African-Americans could play in helping conservatives stem the growing tide in favor of gay rights. And yet progressives have seemed largely oblivious to another issue in which conservatives might find willing allies in the black...

There are a lot of things we must do in life, not because they are really necessary or really make a difference, but because they are tradition and we are expected to, plain and simple.

Increasingly, watching -- or at least pretending you watched -- the State of the...

Though it's been nearly forty-three years since his untimely death in recent years there has been renewed interest in the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The 2008 book titled "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America" became a bestseller....

More than a year ago former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi generated headlines due to a rare public display of raw emotion. She became visibly choked up while voicing concern that the increasingly heated rhetoric permeating our political discourse at the height of the health care debate could...