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A kerfuffle broke out this week when the rapper Common was invited to poetry night at the White House. But John McWhorter of The New Republic argues that Common is an artist and poet worthy of appreciation, and that his appearance at the White House should be a positive one.

Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) declared his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination today on ABC's Good Morning America, telling host George Stephanopoulos his views are increasingly popular:

Higher prices for gasoline accounted for almost half of the 0.4 percent increase last month.

The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to open the Morganza Spillway near Baton Rouge on Saturday. Opening the gates for the first time in 38 years will unleash the river on a wild ride, putting hundreds of thousands of acres and several thousand homes at risk of flooding.

Riffing off a Hasidic newspaper's decision to digitally remove Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and another woman from the photo, a cheeky website has taken President Obama and the other guys out.

Technology has allowed us one and all to be makers of pictures, not merely consumers. We approach life with the detached eye of producers, rather than the engagement of participants. We run the risk of missing out on the experiences we so anxiously wish to document.

The Wall Street Journal opinion writers likened Mitt Romney's attempt to defend his Massachusetts health care law with its individual mandate and oppose the federal law to a foolhardy daredevil jump by Evel Knievel.

After six years on Saturday Night Live and many supporting film parts, Kristen Wiig has her first starring role in the romantic comedy Bridesmaids, which has been touted as a Judd Apatow movie for ladies. Critic David Edelstein says it's likely to be a hit with both women and men.

His third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in a futuristic America — where books don't exist and where the economy has collapsed. Shteyngart explains why he decided to write a love story in this dystopic vision of the future — and why he thinks technology is changing the way we think.