Anna Quindlen

The double standard is alive and well; it's just more nuanced. And to those guys in New Hampshire? Iron your own shirts!

Sending the kids off to college is one rite of passage. But it's when they finally leave for real that the biggest breach begins.

When it finally comes down to a single nominee, the Democratic Party needs to be ready for a united front. The voters sure are.

Race, gender—they're both up for grabs in this presidential election. It's age that has become the new taboo in a vitality culture.

The voters knew exactly where they were heading on primary night. The candidates and the pundits? Not so much.

Every four years Americans select a president. Given our crazy system, it's a miracle that we manage to seal the deal.

A mind is a terrible thing to change. That's why Rudy decided to double his base by turning himself into two candidates at once.

A terrible shortage of food for the poor grips the country. Where is the political will to do the right thing for the hungry?

It's no longer a question of whether women should be in combat. It's a matter of the regulations catching up with the reality.

Public financing for election campaigns may not be a panacea, but it's got to be better than what we're doing now.

Presidential campaigns are like the surface of the earth. Layers accumulate slowly over time. Soon the assumptions of today will be buried under strata of primary contests, opposition slime and debate fallout.

It takes a special kind of confidence to wrestle democracy to the ground out in the open. That's what happened in Houston 30 years ago.

Since lung cancer has outstripped breast cancer as a killer of women, younger smokers have to be constantly created to fill the death gap.

Instead of expanding, we contracted. Instead of a new juncture, we retreated to old ways. It's all there at the construction site.

One of the complaints you hear a lot from readers when you're in my line of work and live in my part of the country is that you can't understand America from the vantage point of New York City.

Some people talk about immigration in terms of politics, some in terms of history. But the crux of the matter is numbers. The Labor Department says that immigrants make up about 15 percent of the work force.

Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill.

TO: HRCRE: VPWell, senator, with the "Sopranos"-influenced video gone viral, you managed to convince millions of Americans that you do have a sense of humor.

The men and women in the field are the ones best able to judge whether the mission is working. They are the ultimate embeds.

If someone told you that there was one behavior most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid, wouldn't you do something about that?

A selection of stories and essays about Bill and Hillary Clinton from the NEWSWEEK archives.

I first met David Halberstam when he was living with one of my friends. I arrived for dinner wearing a black tunic and pants; he said I looked like a Vietnamese peasant.

I am that most pathetic of human creatures, a human who walks into a veterinarian's office without an animal. "Beau?" the woman behind the desk calls, and I rise.

In the summer of 1971 I stood at the wire ticker and watched as my college boyfriend's lottery draft number came up 365. Only his cousin, born in a leap year, did better.

This is not a column about Ann Coulter. Otherwise it would be irrelevant. When the conservative lounge act used an anti-gay slur to refer to John Edwards while speaking to a Republican gathering, she catapulted herself momentarily back into the public eye.

The examination of conscience began when a hardworking and pious woman who had never watched "Access Hollywood" asked a question to which there was no good answer: "Who is Anna Nicole Smith?"It was the day of the death heard round the world, and for the life of me I didn't know what to say.

Tomorrow. That's when the United States should begin to bring combat forces home from Iraq. Today would be a better option, but already it's tomorrow in Baghdad, in the Green Zone fortress Americans have built in the center of the city, out in the streets where IEDs are lying in wait for passing soldiers and every marketplace may be the endgame for a suicide bomber.The course of this war has been a consistent scene of carnage with ever-changing underpinnings.

Wouldn't all of us love to have a journal, a memoir, a letter, from those we have loved and lost? Shouldn't all of us leave a bit of that behind?

When word circulated that the president would make a speech to the nation on Iraq in the new year, there was speculation about what he would say. Some suspected he would just repeat boilerplate sentiments about bringing freedom to Iraqis and making America safe from terrorism.

Once upon a time there was a dollhouse. Santa brought it via UPS. The dollhouse was enormous, and when push came to shove--well, neither made any difference.