With Weinergate in full swing and 'The Sperminator' and Strauss-Kahn incidents just barely in the rearview mirror, a lot has been said about the various scandals in the news of late (weirdly, all by ...

One of the strangest parts of the whole sordid affair surrounding the downfall of Rep. Anthony Weiner has been the differing accounts of this story, and how that engendered speculation and ...

But roost they often will. And as they do, will you be hanging on every word in the media? Because reading every story, listening to every news report, and tweeting every thought on these folks can be ...

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Ever wonder what our nation looks like to folks from afar? Here we look at how a uniquely American story--the kind of news we have trouble explaining even to ourselves--is being told overseas. Want to ...

As I wrote last week in this space, liars get caught, and now the Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) sex scandal just took another, and hopefully final, turn as a teachable moment for our kids. First, after ...

Hope is still alive for former Rep. Anthony “the Twitter” Weiner. In today’s America, failure is only the first step to your next success, even when your personality gives new meaning to the term ...

In the usual absence of any real, meaty (not a pun, thank you) political stories each summer, it’s usually something completely absurd, wild and/or scandalous that captures the attention of the media ...

Even since that fateful day when Rep. Anthony Weiner accidently tweeted a very um...personal...photo to all of his Twitter followers, the jokes have been practically ...

On top of all the weiner/wiener hilarity and boner euphemisms, Weinergate has generated some interesting commentary. Here, five posts that (ahem) stood out for me today. If Anthony Weiner never met ...

Weinergate is getting bigger and bigger. Another woman has come forward to RadarOnline.com and Star magazine and provided a sexting exchange with embattled New York Representative Anthony Weiner. The ...