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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
feature Exoticism is in the beholder’s eye.
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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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Editor's Letter: Bob Dole sends his regrets
feature Political gamesmanship and health reform
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Editor's Letter: Barack Obama, war president?
feature Americans would very much like to be done with the “war on terror,” but “turning the page” is a lot easier in political rhetoric than it is in reality.
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Editor's Letter: Collision insurance: A knife vs. a kiss
feature There are 8 million people in New York City, and sometimes they bump in into each other, as Sirmone McCaulla and Christopher Gutierrez did on the sidewalk.
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Editor's Letter: Reforming America’s public schools
feature At the conventions of the two national teachers unions this month, President Obama was persona non grata and Education Secretary Arne Duncan was denounced in absentia.
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Editor's Letter: The money-happiness nexus
feature A study of more than 136,000 people in 132 countries was the first to differentiate between “life satisfaction”—respondents’ overall sense of how it’s going—and day-to-day emotions like feeling upbeat or blah.
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Editor's Letter: Advocates for truth
feature I found it striking that veteran journalist Daniel Schorr passed away last week just as tens of thousands of classified U.S. documents relating to the Afghanistan war were published by WikiLeaks.
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Editor's Letter: A marriage that lasts
feature What, you have to wonder, did Chelsea learn about marriage from her parents’ notorious union? While countless other marriages have fallen apart, something kept the Clintons together.
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