Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart..

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being ….

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny..

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time..

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal e….

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove,….

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm ….

Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's ….

Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes..

Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball..

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do not….

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American….

One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you ….

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on t….

I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me….

Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't tw….

In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world..

When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing..

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in reco….