Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.