Washington Post Magazine humor columnist Gene Weingarten talks about his recent column "Tis' the Season to be Miserable," which explains why he loathes holiday parties, or any party for that matter.

Women may not be any smarter than men, but they are definitely less stupid. Whenever you read about, say, a fatality in an alcohol-related rock-paper-scissors brawl, you know it will not involve women ...

Washington Post Magazine writer and humorist Gene Weingarten spent 24 hours watching and listening to political pundits on six televisions, two radios and his laptop. Weingarten explains why he did ...

When I first wrote disparagingly about Twitter nine months ago, I got a lot of angry e-mails from devotees of the popular social networking Web site. These writers were grumpy because I’d suggested ...

I am old and cranky. I write "Below the Beltway," a weekly humor column that is nationally syndicated. With my son Dan and David Clarke, I write the daily newspaper comic strip Barney & Clyde, about a ...

“We should not be subject to the whims of the politicized, left-leaning justice system. Shouldn’t we all have the freedom, without fear of prosecution, to continue the recent practice of depositing ...

I was reading a story in the New York Times the other day when I came upon this sentence, buried at the bottom of the 14th paragraph: “Last month, reports surfaced in Oklahoma of great horned owls ...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten will visit the University of Massachusetts this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. to speak to students. Weingarten was awarded his second Pulitzer in feature ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Last weekend I had the pleasure of gathering with a group of old friends of Gene Weingarten at the home of Tom “The Butcher” Shroder, Gene’s longtime editor, to celebrate Gene and to commemorate the ...

was most recently rocked — it gets rocked more often than an insomniac baby — when the publisher of the York (Pa.) Daily Record issued an edict banning cursing in the newsroom. The use of foul ...