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.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

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

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

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

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.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.