Readers here and abroad waited this week to see if the Nobel literature jury considered Yanks too “ignorant” and “isolated” to deserve the prize.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined a rising number of GOP voices to back the Democrats’ current reform bill.

Saturday was a good day for Ruth Reichl, and she let the tweeting world know it.

Three Americans have won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for a discovery that has been likened to the tip of a shoelace.

The man praised by punk priestess Patti Smith as “the best poet of his generation” was much better known as the drug-addicted street hustler in “The Basketball Diaries.”

There will be more meat per square foot than on the Argentine pampas when the new Sylvester Stallone vehicle, The Expendables, begins shooting soon.

Whatever epitaphs mark the graves of great men and women, few can compare with the singular achievement of a little-known American who died two days ago.

Maybe one day soon, the voice of your car’s GPS system will sound like a confused bum gargling marbles.

Dominick Dunne, who did for crime reporting what Hunter S. Thompson did for political chronicles, might have found delicious irony in the timing of his own death.

Wall Street appeared to approve of President Obama’s nominating Ben S. Bernanke to a second term.

A recent comment by one Fox News Channel advertiser hints at a possible return to reasoned discourse.

Alec Baldwin has backed off a statement published last week that he might move to Connecticut to run against Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Tom Ridge is the latest member of the Bush administration to talk about deceiving the American public for political reasons.

Tribune Company creditors – including investment banks that are owed $8.6 billion – are working on a reorganization that will shove Sam Zell out the door.

Debbie Dingell has been downsized.

It’s clear that there’s been about enough of the Bubba Factor for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

She was competitive enough to play quarterback in her brothers’ football games. She had political ambitions, but couldn’t go after them because women simply weren’t allowed in big league politics in her prime.

First Mel Martinez said in December that he wouldn’t run for a second term as the only Republican Hispanic in the U.S. Senate.

Sam Sifton looks like a good guy. But as he gets ready to begin his new job as the hired gut of The New York Times, that’s caused a minor controversy.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs has estranged himself from his audience in relentlessly beating the birther story.