Jackie Broyles and Dunlap analyze the most recent Republican debate.

Bernard spoke from behind his newspaper. “We’re a gloomy lot, aren’t we?” “We?” I said, looking up from my game of solitaire. “Who is ‘we’? ...

I could not resist lifting this from Seamus McCauley over at Virtual Economics . "When Elvis Presley died in 1977 there were 200 Elvis ...

A recent UN study ranked Iceland as the best place to live in the world. (The US slipped from 8th best to 12th.) In response, Iceland's ...

A friend of mine is asking for advice. He’s in his 20’s. He’s struggling to define what’s next, not sure whether he’s already there or even ...

Secretary Gates says the U.S. government needs "new institutions for the 21st Century with a 21st Century mind-set." He told an au...

My son Blake's buddy turned 18 today. Blake was telling me, "Now Chris can go to x-rated movies and vote." In its wisdom, the ...

Communities are defined by a consensus trance about how civilization is supposed to work. This trance goes through periods of transformation...

It occurs to me that the central problem with corporations is one of causation. No one quite understands the chains of causation from effort...

When my children were in their early teens, I read them Jostein Gaarder's wonderful book, Sophie's World . It told the evolution of ...

Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan reveals in a new book that Bush asked him to lie about the outing of Valerie Plame. Sadly, Bush...

Lunch with Bernard and his sister Maddie. Again, me, the human buffer. We were eating our salads when Maddie announced, “Her daughter has a ...

I see it everywhere. Walking through public places, children, teenagers, and even adults are plugged in to iPods. Suddenly, I become suspici...

I do not understand the many Americans who seem to get so excited about candidates. I follow politics. I think that the stakes in politics a...

I'm growing increasingly convinced that we're at a point of bifurcation. Alert readers are quick to ask, "What could he possibl...

When I was fresh out of college, living north of Bellingham, WA, with my new Canadian bride, I hosted a radio show. Among the performers fea...

One of the joys of being middle aged is that I can enjoy both of these songs. If you don't get the beauty of Paul Anka's treatment o...

Sadly, Kanye West's mother died in surgery - cosmetic surgery. It's easy to criticize the woman for taking such a risk for the sake ...

Last quarter, GM lost about $39 billion. It wouldn't take too many quarters like that before I was forced to borrow money from friends. ...

Norman Mailer, like all great writers, refused the banal generalities used to caricature rather than characterize people and events, unafrai...