In 2009, the average office worker will spend forty-one per cent of her day reading and responding to e-mails. Such grim statistics abound in John Fre...
Don McNay | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy
The Decline and Fall of my Previously Erect Penis
Steve Haber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
To truly open the future of books and reading, consumers must be freed from proprietary devices and formats. We owe it to those who came before us to bring access to as many as possible.
Bill Mundell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Incredibly, the state of California, the 8th largest economy in the world, doesn't have a complete balance sheet. It's not a question of bankruptcy, taxes, or services, but of redeploying the state's significant assets.
Adam Hanft | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style
Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.
Levi Novey | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.
William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment
Last night's repeat win at the Emmy Awards further enshrined Mad Men as television's best series on a night when it aired a consequential new episode.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Children are naturally prone to curiosity -- but all too often this is replaced by nurture that cautions against everything that is unknown, leading ultimately to a life ultimately not much worth knowing about at all.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 09.26.2009 | Books
I recommend this assignment to those with the crisp copies of Moby-Dick and Brave New World on display probably just to impress people.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living
Still driving around town in her shiny red Lexus, my grandma continues to maintain her sassy, coiffed hairdo, along with a manicure and shopping trips to keep up with the latest fashions.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
The term sounds like a make-your-own-course title for a sixth-year undergrad at a progressive college but Facebook Lit has been my creative challenge and my job for a year.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Recovery, making a life of contribution despite and with a mental illness, is about hope and belief and patience and persistence.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
On the eve of our Grand Celebration of the extraordinary decree that declared us a free republic, we find ourselves chained to the wreckage of a brutally flawed casus belli.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
Male influence in a child's life is invaluable, irreplaceable and necessary for most of us. There, I said it.
Julia Cheiffetz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media
During this moment of transition when budgets for long form journalism seem scarcer by the day, maybe looking to the classics or the public domain is one tiny way to keep our collective attention span in tact.
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 06.15.2009 | Entertainment
When Jeff Probst is openly dissing you in the recap, you are in big trouble.
Noah St. John | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
Knowledge is king and awareness is power. The positive actions you take to face any situation in life give you control over your behavior and emotions. That's how to fight fear and make it work for you.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business
Mark Twain gave us some accurate insight into entities like Bank of America: "A banker is a fellow who lends us an umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
By alluding to incidents that happened almost 40 years ago and making charges that would have made Joe McCarthy proud, McCain supporters are, almost literally, fighting the last (Cold) war.
Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
The problem with the word "change" is that it's soft and vague -- and that's how too many blue collar and undecided voters perceive Obama.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.01.2008 | Entertainment
After one of George's hilarious shows, we talked about my theories on the meaning of vulgar language. I was struck by what a calm, deep-thinking person he was off-stage.
AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business
HARTFORD, Conn. — Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and other boldfaced names among the dead have something in common with living Americans in these har...
Reuters | Jeremy Lovell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Rather like the premature reports of the death of Mark Twain, forecasts of the collapse of the art market as a result of the global credit crunch appe...
The New Yorker | Keith Lubeley | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books