By now, you've surely heard that "This American Life" has retracted a story it broadcast in January about misery and abuse at a Foxconn factory in China that makes iPads for Apple. The story was an excerpt from The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a one-man...

On November 9, celebrity chef Mario Batali made the mistake of comparing Wall Street bankers to Hitler. (He also threw Stalin in there, but let's keep this simple.) Like so many others before him, Batali found out that carelessly invoking the H word is asking for trouble.

Well-heeled Wall Streeters...

Donald Trump has found his issue: Obama wasn't born in the U.S.! No matter how absurd the claim might be, Trump keeps birthin' it up, and the major news sites keep reporting it.

If the media has time to cover Trump's nonsense, surely there's also time to start asking...

Those hoping President Obama will restore the rule of law were delighted last week when he nominated Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh as Legal Adviser at the State Department. I have known Koh for two decades and wrote a book that covered a key part of his early career....

Banished to the political wilderness, out of power in the White House and Congress, conservatives are struggling to recover their voice. Curiously, though, the leaders who've emerged in the effort to revive the Republican Party aren't so much political or policy people as they are believers in a dying religion....

Attorney General Eric Holder says we're all cowards when it comes to race, and he believes we should have more "frank conversations" about racial issues. I think Holder's overdoing it, but given that Conan O'Brien just took his last bow on NBC's Late Night, let 's have a frank conversation:...

President Obama is shutting down Guantánamo, but he's doing it the wrong way. I am not talking about the practical matters involved: where to put the detainees, how to prosecute them, whether to send some to other countries, and so forth. Those are all thorny questions, and they must be...