Mitch McConnell throws cold water on heath care reform, Jerry Springer waxes poetic about Oprah, and Liz Cheney wants to look beyond Sarah Palin. That and more in our Sunday roundup.

Democrats won the first round on health care last night, but centrist senators took to the talk shows today to say the current bill won't pass. Peter Beinart on why the public option might be doomed.

The president’s visit to China was seen as a failure, but what if that was just the new standard? Martin Jacques on why the U.S. must get used to decline—and learn humility.

They say they were raped and forced to kill—and they just now remember it, 20 years later. Casey Schwartz on a disturbing claim of "recovered memory" rocking a tiny Missouri town.

Penelope Cruz showed her dark side, Will Smith and Jay-Z came to Broadway, and Taylor Swift became a greeting card. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in music, film, TV, and art.

Christopher Buckley enjoyed Sarah Palin's memoir so much, he created his own index for it. 

Back at home after a trip to Iceland, our new travel columnist Jolie Hunt reveals the haunts of her neighborhood in East London, where bars and bargains abound in equal measure.

From a Sarah Palin media blitz to a Robert Pattinson tantrum, a controversial Gap ad to a cat’s run in with the fuzz, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.