Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water...

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.