Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.