In the midst of the debt-ceiling negotiations in the summer of 2011, a commenter on the blog Pragmatic Capitalism offered a simple suggestion to end the debate over the debt ceiling once and for all: ...

A woman who claims to have posted a comment on a Spokesman-Review blog that triggered a defamation lawsuit has revealed her identity. Linda Cook said her suggestion to ask Kootenai County Republican ...

After profiling the different types of blog commenters recently, I had some requests for advice on how to be the good kinds of commenters, rather than the bad. Here are some dos and don’ts that might ...

This week’s New York Magazine cover story drops over 5,500 words on the “slightly illicit-sounding” Brownstoner, a blog that for several years has chronicled the steamy vicissitudes of gentrifying ...

Just when it seems like the John Edwards fiasco couldn’t get any sadder, Rush & Molloy report today that, according to “a source close” to Elizabeth Edwards, the scorned wife of John Edwards has been ...

Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers. An edited transcript of the chat is below. (Sign up here to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each ...

The regulars here know me by my pseudonym ‘Nandita’. The head of the blogs desk has asked me to write a piece about my experiences of commenting on this page for the last couple of years. This is an ...

Climate science has moved out of the laboratory and monitoring stations and into the comments section of blogs and news articles. In Internet comments sections, you can find all the ...

“All members, but especially those who identify as women and those who work in the named Departments, should be aware and careful, and of course all of us should look out for one another,” his note ...

The Atlantic has already dubbed it “the single most important comment in the history of Internet comments. Probably.” In the midst of the debt-ceiling negotiations in the summer of 2011, a commenter ...