Which vulnerable Dems get to vote "no" on health care? That's the question facing Pelosi, who says, "Every vote around here is a heavy lift." Eric Alterman on why liberals came around.

The spat between America and Israel is hurting Netanyahu more than Obama. Peter Beinart on the fallout in the Mideast.

ABC News' hiring of Christiane Amanpour is a gamble on an untraditional star. Rebecca Dana on why she left CNN—and why Diane Sawyer backed her for the job.

The end of Lost, the return of Glee, a new Doctor Who, and Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian—VIEW OUR GALLERY of what’s worth watching on the small screen in the coming months.

Republicans have recruited their biggest roster of African-American candidates ever. John Avlon on how the GOP hopes to use this group of 32 to counter charges of racial insensitivity.

From sapphires and semen to bird poop and endangered fruit, there’s almost nothing you can’t have rubbed into your cheeks—for an exorbitant price.  Beth Landman on the 11 most outrageous facials.

The Congressional Budget Office projects health care will save $1 trillion over the next 20 years. You believe that? Benjamin Sarlin talks to past CBO chiefs about the agency's accuracy.

With his first major retrospective in Paris in more than 20 years, Lucian Freud reveals the intimate relationship between the artist and his subject. VIEW OUR GALLERY. By Eric Pape.

Greta Gerwig, who co-stars in the new movie Greenberg, recounts walking around Los Angeles and trespassing at the Chateau Marmont—with $97.89 in her bank account.