Petula Dvorak

Of all the adventures my lucky children had this summer — swimming in two oceans, hanging out on their bearded uncle’s commercial salmon fishing boat, endless popsicles — the biggest one, they told me, was just 495 feet away in their own Washington, D.C., neighborhood. ...

Elliot Rodger’s misogynistic ravings inspire a powerful response on Twitter.

This was the summer of irresponsible three-day benders. A few times, it was 4 a.m. and we said yes to just one more episode, even though the kids would be up in a couple of hours and we knew we'd be zombies at work the next day. But we couldn't stop. We just had to know whether "Downton...

WASHINGTON -- Absolutely not. Bert and Ernie should not get married. Fueled by the sea change in states across the nation legalizing same-sex marriage and boosted by a census report that gay households are increasingly going on the record, there is a cheeky but earnest movement...

WASHINGTON -- We get it.

The state of Virginia gave Thomas Haynesworth one heck of a birthday gift last week. After 27 years in prison, the commonwealth set him free. On his 46th birthday. How sweet. The problem is, that's only the beginning of what the government owes this man, even though Haynesworth may...