Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.