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

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.