Julia Baird

Roman Polanski's victim also needs justice.

But we are not all the boss.

Sometimes happiness isn't everything.

Parents, children, and the wages of betrayal.

Rachel Maddow always thought she was an outsider. How did she become a star?

Odd, yes, but there we are. Still, history suggests issues of policy will ultimately trump the politics of identity.

'Sex and the City' is back at last! But those Manolo heels may be the sharpest things about it.

New suggestions that FDR's affair with doting Lucy Mercer never ended.

Why aren't more powerful public women caught up in sex scandals?

Margaret Thatcher was the kind of woman who made men's toes curl. Her savage intelligence, command of policy and what François Mitterrand called "the mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula" both terrified and intrigued them.

In a new book, 30 female writers critique Hillary Clinton. Again. And again. And still miss the point.

Eleanor Roosevelt was not just an idealistic First Lady. As a new collection of papers reveals, she was also a smart, disciplined and unabashed strategist.

Three weeks ago, while preparing to go to jail, Paris Hilton sauntered out her front door with a Bible tucked under her arm—facing outward so the cover would be clearly visible.

On Feb. 6, 1952, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was distraught when he heard King George VI had died. His secretary, John Colville, tried to console him by assuring him he would get on well with the new queen, Elizabeth II: "But all he could say was that he didn't know her, and that she was only a child." She was 25 at the time.