On Nov. 4, 2008, a proclamation that had echoed through the American lexicon for nearly a decade was crushed beneath the weight of history:

"If he wins, I'm moving to Canada."

Uttered in liberal enclaves from Cambridge to the Castro District since the Florida recounts in 2000,...

Please don't be angry with Sarah Palin for excluding all those big, funny places with skyscrapers from "Real America" and its "Pro-America" borders. Nor should you blame John McCain's adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer for excluding Northern Virginia from the "Real Virginia," or Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann for looking...

If there's anything more repugnant than blatant pandering, it's xenophobia.

How else can you explain Barack Obama and John McCain's handling of the plumber issue during Wednesday night's debate? Clearly, both presidential candidates knew that this plumber would be someone with universal appeal to average Americans and would provide a...

When I was little more than three years old, my father pulled me into the living room, scooped my infant sister from her crib and yelled like a madman as the U.S. men's hockey team went onto its Winter Olympics win over the Soviet Union in 1980. In that moment,...

It's homecoming season at America's institutions of higher learning, which means one thing for parents and students alike: Inoffensive casual dining.

Homecoming and Parents Weekend is often the first time parents and their collegiate children have seen each other since loading the car with big-box discount dormware and parting ways....

How does a seemingly ubiquitous entity touting change and social responsibility become known as an elitist, foreign-speaking pseudo-intellectual completely out of touch with the general public?

For Starbucks, it starts with an opponent so hungry for a victory that it is willing to label its own supporters as knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing,...

"Our entire economy is in danger." -- President Bush

"XOXO" -- Gossip Girl

Lehman Brothers have become America's least favorite siblings, AIG workers are now the equivalent of Post Office employees and the nation has set bail for its economy at $700 billion. If you were a character in modern...

Each Labor Day weekend during the late '80s and early '90s, my family would pack up a cargo trailer, hitch it to my stepfather's Firebird, Bronco or Aries K (we didn't believe in keeping cars for great lengths of time) and drive down to a three-bedroom bungalow in a small...