On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.