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Editor's Letter: Labor Day
feature All of this has left Labor Day feeling increasingly like summer’s other bookend, Memorial Day. It has acquired a wistful, elegiac air, its parade steeped in past glory and present anxieties.
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Editor's Letter: A hunger for heroes
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Editor's Letter: Is there a Zzzz plan?
feature A friend of mine, who played a senior role in John McCain's presidential campaign, understands the fatigue that sets in and marvels at the stamina shown by Obama and his team.
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Online ads and precise optimization
feature Marketers are starting to employ a new technology, dubbed real-time bidding, that enables them to target messages based on what we’re doing online at that very moment.
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Editor's Letter: Good cheer for the Fourth
feature With oil menacing our shores and enmity and suspicion tearing at our polity this Fourth, we can all use a story too good to check.
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Editor's Letter: Groping our way forward
feature In moments of distress and panic, it is tempting to succumb to ideologies that promise a single, simple solution to the mess that is the human condition.
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Editor's Letter: The generational divide
feature For the first time, the president of the United States is younger than I am.
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Editor's Letter: Some perspective on the word "mastermind"
feature Why are we calling thugs, zealots, and swindlers masterminds?
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Editor's Letter: Obama’s historic shout-out
feature About 50 million Americans are atheist or religiously unaffiliated, yet before President Obama included "nonbelievers" in his inaugural address they were absent from today's political rhetoric.
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Editor's Letter: Conflict and moral clarity
feature Watching how children play army can be instructive. When I was a kid in Ohio, for example, we didn't want to play Vietnam—we wanted to fight the Nazis.
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Editor's Letter: The Outrage Game
feature It seems that a day doesn’t go by without some offended party demanding an apology for some arguably outrageous slur.
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Editor's Letter: A margin for error
feature The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's admission that it keeps two train schedules for its commuter lines—one for the public and one for train crews—is the most cheering news I’ve heard in ages. <
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