I have been addicted to "The Drudge Report" since at least January, 1998 when he seemed to lead the coverage of Bill Clinton's sordid tryst with Monica Lewinsky--probably before that, too; I can't remember when I didn't visit the sight multiple times a day to check what's new.

Increasingly, I've...

The Beijinger is a magazine which functions partly as a Craig's List here in Beijing. Each day during Games time, members have been posting requests to buy or sell tickets for the sports events. I've inquired about a few of these. Last week, I asked about a basketball match and...

Renowned professor and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has a new project that could be a true gift for raising engagement in African American students. Earlier this year, Professor Gates hosted "African American Lives 2" on PBS, a program that traced the genealogy of 19 prominent African Americans...

SAN FRANCISCO — BarackObama.com has a new look and feel this weekend. The campaign gave it a mini-makeover, adjusting the color scheme and the images at the top of the home page but leaving the rest of it intact.

Here's the old...

We know what Fox News' function is in the universe...the Republican Party line.

We know that CNN is still hopelessly stuck in the Crossfire concept of two opposing points of view, given equal weight even if one of them held that the world is governed by dancing cantaloupes wearing fake...

Amazon.com really thinks I need a Kindle. You know what that is: the Web store's portable, wireless reading device that instantly downloads -- for a price -- virtually any book you'd like from among thousands of titles. Feel the impulse to dive into Ahab's cetacean obsession? Just send...

When Jason Maloney and Kira Kay, two freelance journalists who work frequently with HDNet, first pitched me a story about some obscure places called Abkhazia and South Ossetia a few months ago, I was skeptical to say the least. A story about breakaway territories in the Caucasus didn't exactly scream...

Isabel Wilkinson's entry at...

Wow...what a feeling to arrive in Beijing in the middle of the Olympic Games.

I was curious to see how much I would really feel "part" of all the fervor. This is my first trip to China in over ten years. Even before, try as I might I never...

A number of years ago, I was having dinner with some friends at a now defunct steak place in L.A. I remember a conversation we were having that night (over very dry martinis) that has stayed with me ever since. We were discussing the effects of technology on the ability...

So, I work in PR and a lot of people (like me) depend upon newspapers. But they're dead, pretty much.

Everyone I know wonders whether newspapers and magazines firing just about everyone who isn't a star are going to affect people who PITCH for a living. They're asking:

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Wow.

So, Senator McCain goes on national television and lies to a pastor, pretending that he was in a "cone of silence" holding room during the Saddleback Forum where he couldn't hear the questions that he would be asked that were also being posed to Senator Obama, gets...

Reality television show producers, proudly noting they invented the concept of obscure Americans competing in skimpy outfits for glory and lucrative contracts way before the Olympics came around to it, are capitalizing on Olympics fever by throwing out their existing Fall schedules and implementing the following Games-themed lineup:

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Jennie Finch can hurl a softball harder than most women in the world. She and her teammates have worked their entire lives to become the best in their sport and they're proving themselves worthy of their Olympic expectations.

They are accomplished professionals, mothers and elite athletes with incredible talent and...