Remember when I said the other day that Mel Gibson is probably an angry, violent man? Well, check this out: In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her…

Madeline Holler is no Sharon Astyk, and she knows it. She and her husband left a relatively high-income lifestyle for a place in the Midwest, where they found themselves living on a third of what they had been making. Excerpts: After we settled, I looked for work but couldn’t find childcare that made part-time work…

Good for Andrew: I should add that [politics as total war] is not always on one side of the political equation. This story — about a gay journalist infiltrating a private therapy group in order to out and expose a conflicted minister — is just as disgusting a violation and should not have been published,…

John Robb says that’s the real social and economic story now. The postwar creation of a broad middle class in America allowed for stability because it provided a broad base for prosperity and creativity. But that’s going away, he believes. Excerpt: The social contract that enabled this success, particularly the post WW2 social contract that…

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