All That Glitters (Is Not Gould)

The former Gawker editor, “exposed” in the Times Magazine

By Megan Garber   May 23, 2008 at 04:35 PM

At first blush, it would seem to be one of those delightfully zeitgeist-y romps through everyone's favorite topic these days,... More

Back from Baghdad

By Megan Garber   May 23, 2008 at 01:00 PM

We hear a lot—though not nearly enough—about what it's like to be a soldier returning from duty in Iraq: the... More

Et Tu, Mika?

Brzezinski plays a new Morning Joe role

By Megan Garber   May 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Mika Brzezinski, often the Lone Lady at MSNBC's Morning Joe round table, will usually speak out when one of the... More

Ellen’s Russert Moment

The comedian celebrates Memorial Day by doing some politician-grilling

By Megan Garber   May 23, 2008 at 09:11 AM

Talk about afflicting the comfortable. Well, actually, make that "afflicting the awkwardly, squirmingly, cringingly uncomfortable." On yesterday's Ellen, the daytime... More

We’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling

Now it’s gone…gone…gone…

By Megan Garber   May 21, 2008 at 10:42 AM

It had to happen at some point. Tim Russert’s grin is just slightly less broad. The mischievous twinkle in Pat... More

Club Med(vedev)

By Megan Garber   May 9, 2008 at 12:24 PM

The inauguration of Dmitri Medvedev as Russia's new president this week is one of those fantastic Historical Occasions for which... More

EJ Graff Joins the XX Factor

By Megan Garber   May 9, 2008 at 10:08 AM

The XX Factor, Slate's women-written blog, welcomes a new voice today: EJ Graff. Graff, the author of Getting Even and... More

PEJ Gets the Last Laugh

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2008 at 03:32 PM

In what might just be one of the most fun pieces of research ever conducted, ever, the Project for Excellence... More

Star Wars Episode VI: Re-Spurn of the Jedi

By Megan Garber   May 8, 2008 at 02:41 PM

Howard Kurtz today takes a macrocosmic—literally, macrocosmic—view of the media's post-Tuesday treatment of the Democrats' Epic Battle for Cosmic Domina—er,... More

Hillary, We Hardly Knew Ye…

Hey, MSNBC: Why the remembrance of things past?

By Megan Garber   May 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM

Could it almost be…over? Is “our long national nightmare” soon to end? After a night of nail-biting—“too early to call”... More

The People vs. Jeremiah Wright

What’s wrong with the Wright trial

By Megan Garber   May 6, 2008 at 03:31 PM

When most Americans met Jeremiah Wright, he was a caricature, rendered in the blurry lines and crackling tones of buffered... More

Primary Night Bingo!

Lighten up tonight’s punditry with a game

By Megan Garber   May 6, 2008 at 02:20 PM

It's Super Tuesday. Again. Another loooooong evening of waiting and watching returns—and the punditry that analyzes them—before the Big, Exciting... More

Boxed In

By Megan Garber   May 2, 2008 at 05:03 PM

Leave it to the New York Post to find some dark humor in the increasingly brutal Democratic nominating contest. Today,... More

Getting Schooled: Pre-K

Let’s press the candidates about early education

By Megan Garber   May 2, 2008 at 03:02 PM

Among the stump issues that McCain, Clinton, and Obama agree on—besides, of course, their strong support of barbequed ribs and... More

It’s Raining Men! On Your TV!

By Megan Garber   May 2, 2008 at 10:56 AM

Humidity is rising... Barometer's getting low According to our sources... Your TV's the place to go Cause tonight, for... More