CHICAGO (AP) -- In honor of William Shakespeare's upcoming birthday, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has proclaimed "Talk Like Shakespeare Day" in the ...
Wall Street Journal | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 05.19.2009 | Home
In his 34 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has evolved from idiosyncratic dissenter to influential elder, able to assemble majori...
John Farr | Posted 05.14.2009 | Entertainment
Brando's filmography provides sufficient proof that the actor's own demons helped stall a career that in its hey-day (the mid-late fifties) seemed limitless in potential.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Why, after all this time, in this moment of desperate urgency, can't poor Tim fill senior positions at the Treasury Department?
Daily Telegraph | Posted 04.17.2009 | World
An academic claims to have discovered six previously unrecognised works by William Shakespeare. ...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
In London today the chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stanley Fish, unveiled a portrait that he claims is of the famous playwright. Even ...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
Here are the ten sources behind the most memorable lines of Obama's address.
Sarah Newman | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
Whatever your take is on February 14th, it's an opportunity to actually not spend much money (and who has any left to spend in this economy?) and make it a sustainable day.
Keith Thomson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
According to a 2002 Time/CNN poll, 47% of Americans have smoked marijuana. Here's a list of famous users and advocates of the plant.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.
Vicky Ward | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business
Even if Madoff goes to jail today, he still doesn't face indictment for at least another 30 days. The grand jury has been given an extension to deliberate -- and some of us are baffled as to why.
Martin Nolan | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
In 2008, during the biggest financial news story since 1929, the credibility of the Wall Street Journal's ed page coughed, sputtered, and collapsed.
Jim Wallis | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
As American and Indian intelligence continue to point to the Pakistani militant organization as responsible for last weeks attacks in Mumbai, I hope they've read a new report from the National Intelligence Council.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama and McCain accomplished two very different objectives last night: Obama unified and inspired; McCain departed with grace. Here's what history will remember of the speeches of November 4, 2008.
Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
"Pagan, Hagan, whoeth is counting, Sister Bachmann? Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. But voting in November, facts they won't remember."
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business
What to make of the screaming financial headlines of recent weeks? Where does your mind go when you read the coverage? What do you worry and wonder ab...
Michael Showalter | Posted 11.03.2008 | Entertainment
If last nights debate was a production of Macbeth the critics would have called it bad casting. "Why would anyone cast Heidi Montag in the role of Lady Macbeth?" They'd say.
Ken Adelman | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
Shakespeare used words with more finesse and had the greatest insight into human nature than anyone, ever. With these two gifts, he can give us insights into the speechifying we're witnessing in Denver and St. Paul.
John Lundberg | Posted 08.04.2008 | Living
In 1971, James Dickey wrote a letter listing the top ten living American poets. Slotted in third place behind Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden was...James D...
Richard LaGravenese | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
Tim Russert was fair-minded to the point of utterly lacking any active moral sense whatsoever. But there is one thing Tim Russert did that no other living journalist has yet done: he died.
AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago