A baby hits the rails and suffers a bump on his head.

First Lady as an action figure?

A text message that saved.

An accident full of hot air.

Fashion historian Caroline Weber will never forget the time she was riding the Metro in Paris while wearing a pink vintage cape. “Within five minutes I was incredibly uncomfortable because […]

Obama says he can take the jabs

Rogue justice in Tangipahoa Parish

No government has done more to modernize their society by introducing more Western culture than the United Arab Emirates. The emirate of Dubai alone has already introduced the desert to […]

As part of its effort to reinvent itself, the Republican National Committee launched a completely redesigned website earlier in the week. The problem is not so much that the website […]

Technology and media bloggers have been quick to declare the death of print, both in newspaper and book format. The bold new future will come to us through e-readers like […]

A recent article in Time magazine (http://bit.ly/H8rac) discussed why the world’s poor don’t buy insurance. This is something that I have been thinking about for a few years now. Recent […]

Food purists, proponents of family farming and sustainable grub, Big Ag haters, pregnant ladies, and anyone else who gives a damn what they put in their mouth, sound the alarms. […]

Plans to unveil a new strategy to “finish the job” in the country were announced today, but a former national security adviser for the Bush administration reminds the president that […]

According to PaceWildenstein Art Gallery owner Arne Glimcher, while Madoff’s Ponzi scam might have closed some doors, it opened others. The whole reason the art industry is irrational is the […]

Dr. Beverly Whipple is widely recognized as the scientist who popularized the G-Spot. She came by Big Think today to speak for a special series we’ll be launching in November. […]

Schools need to be globally competitive. The best graduates from New York City's schools are not competing for jobs with the best graduates of Boston's schools; but with the best graduates in the world. If we look at most of the world's problems (poverty, disease, AIDS, hunger) the root cause is the lack of education. Nations need to improve their educational systems in order to improve their economies.

A fashion historian needs to be an expert on her own wardrobe.

A conversation with the fashion historian and professor of French Literature at Barnard.

Fashion historian Caroline Weber wants to know to what extent those miracles really happened.

Alexander McQueen has an idea that could transform the age-old parades of seasonal style, says Caroline Weber, a French literature professor at Barnard.