Rebecca Traister

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  • A harrowing, inspiring "Boy's Life"

    Filmmaker Rory Kennedy talks about the passion for social justice she shares with the father she never knew, and changing the world with her camera, one story at a time.
    By Rebecca Traister March 24, 2004

  • The Cruella syndrome

    She's too rich! She's a boss from hell! She had a brow lift! Katie Couric, NBC's perky princess, is suddenly getting the media's queen-of-mean treatment. What's our problem with powerful women?
    By Rebecca Traister March 18, 2004

  • Is "The Sopranos" a chick show?

    Why an ultraviolent drama about a New Jersey mafioso paints a more nuanced portrait of women than anything you'll find on Lifetime.
    By Rebecca Traister March 6, 2004

  • Meaningless sex! Rampant drug use! Teen debauchery!

    In "Generation S.L.U.T.," 21-year-old Marty Beckerman blows the whistle on Gen Y, chronicling its sexual excesses and perversions.
    By Rebecca Traister March 2, 2004

  • Congrats Martha!

    Why am I cheering that her securities fraud charges have been dismissed? Because the tone of Stewart's trial has been infused with the sense that the woman who converted "women's work" into cash is getting her justified comeuppance.
    By Rebecca Traister February 27, 2004

  • Slave rebellion!

    As Martha Stewart and Bonnie Fuller squirm, it's payback time for downtrodden assistants everywhere.
    By Rebecca Traister February 12, 2004

  • Is America ready for the wild Kerry family?

    Dad may come off like a stiff, but Mom and the kids are a whole other story.
    By Rebecca Traister February 3, 2004

  • Harvey: Happy?

    The day Oscar gave "Cold Mountain" the cold shoulder, Harvey Weinstein claims victory, with Miramax getting the most nominations -- and his famous temper newly in check.
    By Rebecca Traister January 28, 2004

  • Strange bedfellows

    One loves Bush, the other gags at the very sight of him -- and yet they sleep together every night! Inside the peculiar world of mixed-politics couples.
    By Rebecca Traister January 23, 2004

  • Stand by your man '04

    Judy Dean's TV moment: She loves her work and her husband and doesn't love the spotlight. What could be more normal?
    By Rebecca Traister January 23, 2004

  • Great balls of fire!

    According to Newsweek, straight men are getting the equivalent of the Brazilian bikini wax. But will hairless crotches turn women on -- or repulse them?
    By Rebecca Traister January 15, 2004

  • Will Jake and Heath shatter Hollywood's taboo against gay sex?

    Director Ang Lee is set to cast Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," a story of two cowboys in love. But are studios -- and audiences -- ready for a passionate big-screen kiss between men?
    By Rebecca Traister January 14, 2004

  • Dr. Derriere

    Women, are you dissatisfied with your rear end? Do you dream of having a mighty J.Lo butt? Call New York's leading augmenter of backsides, Dr. Lefkovits.
    By Rebecca Traister January 8, 2004

  • American gothic

    The revelation that Strom Thurmond fathered a child with his 16-year-old black maid raises a host of thorny questions about race, sex, power -- and media silence.
    By Rebecca Traister December 18, 2003

  • Middle-aged woman wallops Tom Cruise!

    The menopausal romance "Something's Gotta Give" beats "The Last Samurai" at the box office. Do chick-flick fans dare hope that the tide of guns, honor and big-ass boats is ebbing?
    By Rebecca Traister December 16, 2003

  • Babe against Bush

    Eleanor Vast-Binder talks about taking it off in order to turn voters on -- against the president.
    By Rebecca Traister December 13, 2003

  • Dr. Dean, medicine woman

    Judith Steinberg Dean is a cipher onto which every woman -- whether high-powered careerist or stay-at-home mom -- can project herself. And like the rest of her husband's campaign, she's almost too good to be true.
    By Rebecca Traister December 8, 2003

  • Get off your knees, Monica

    I've always rooted for the former intern because she paid a hefty price for the same kind of dumb mistake all my friends and I have made. But she needs to stop with the GQ spreads and get a life.
    By Rebecca Traister December 1, 2003

  • Ents storm Grand Central!

    And Gollum rides the Times Square shuttle, as New Line's publicity machine brings Middle-earth to America's city of myth.
    By Rebecca Traister November 19, 2003

  • Classic American food fights

    The author of "Cookoff" discusses the intense -- and thoroughly modern -- world of competitive cooking.
    By Rebecca Traister November 13, 2003

  • When C-listers copulate

    The grainy, night-vision sex video circulating the Internet will satisfy people wanting to see Paris Hilton debased. (Is that redundant?) But Pamela and Tommy Lee have nothing to fear.
    By Rebecca Traister November 12, 2003

  • The feminine antiques

    To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Fear of Flying," feminists Erica Jong, Susan Cheever, Wendy Wasserstein and Sarah Jessica Parker discuss "Sex: Then and Now." Yawn.
    By Rebecca Traister November 6, 2003

  • Craven Broadcasting System

    TV big shots and politicians blast CBS for its cowardly decision to yank the Ronald Reagan miniseries.
    By Rebecca Traister November 5, 2003

  • Letters

    Salon readers say that it's Kobe Bryant -- not his accuser -- who is being unfairly punished by the media.
    November 1, 2003

  • Did Bonnie Fuller really betray women?

    Female editors condemn the Globe for running a tawdry photograph of Kobe Bryant's accuser.
    By Rebecca Traister October 31, 2003
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