In an interview with ABC News to air tonight, former Presidential candidate John Edwards admits having had an affair with a filmmaker contracted to his campaign. This is his first public admission regarding a scandal that you’ve been reading and hearing about—or, more to the point, not reading and hearing about, in large media outlets [...]

Entertainment Weekly is a Time Inc. sibling, so this may seem like corporate whoring, but it is probably malpractice for a pop-culture/politics blog not to link to EW’s Q&As with John McCain and Barack Obama on their favorite TV, movies, music, etc. This may sound a little Maureen Dowd-y, but comparing the two, you have [...]

MTV In the current issue of TIME, I preview MTV’s The Hills, which returns for season 4 later this month and which, God help me, I like: It all sounds shallow, and, O.K., it is. The surfaces are precisely what make The Hills entrancing: it is possibly the best-looking series on television. It doesn’t just [...]