On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that...

When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.

The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'

Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated.

You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.

I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.

A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment,...

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of...

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

I think there are bigger problems in the world than Jeremy Clarkson.

There are times when it's absolutely appropriate to march up to someone, stick out your hand and introduce yourself, and times when it's best to let your male cameraman or producer do the talking and...

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Like Obama before him, Trump will escalate in Afghanistan. Like Obama before him, Trump will lose in Afghanistan. And the rest of us, shamefully, will continue to look the other way.

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the...

We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that....

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that...

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It...

The crests and troughs in Covid-19 cases and the spikes and falls of daily infographics by which we now measure the wellness of our lives have been based mostly on city-driven data.

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way...

I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.