Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.

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

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

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.

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

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

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.