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

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.