Some of you expressed an interest in the history of Cortez in the New World once it was finished and came online.

Since we're going back into Iraq...

When I hear people talk about sex as if it’s no big deal, as if it’s no different than eating a steak or going for a drive on the freeway, w...

This time , on the crucial distinction between "uh" and "um."  As a bonus, a Facebook analysis that shows men are humorl...

H/t Bookworm Room .

I don't know what to make of this bizarre police shooting at an Ohio Walmart. It's got a lot of the Trayvon Martin dilemmas in it,...

Suppose you're a young woman in college, trying to follow Salon's advice to pursue that M.R.S. degree. You might gravitate to a you...

Adding "--eering" to a noun is a handy way to disapprove of the activity without explaining what's wrong with it.

Richard Fernandez doubts the efficacy of the pro-Yazidi airdrop and limited strikes: In Obama’s gesture is an implicit lie. Nobody ever c...

George Will reports on Ken Hughes's theories about what Nixon was really asking his "plumbers" to cover up: On Nov. 2 at 8:...

I saw this yesterday, linked by a friend online: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/world/meast/stopping-isis/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 And the rea...

Apparently a restaurant up north is "facing heat" and has set off a FaceBook "firestorm" by adding to its receipts an ex...

It's getting to where White House press conferences should just come out and say "we're deeply concerned and are closely monito...

China will create own Christian belief system amid tensions with church, says official. Well, it's worked before.

Poppies, for World War I .

I miss Richard Jeni: Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Po...

The Dropkick Murphys have what they are calling a "hair razing time," as part of a fundraiser for a child with a deadly disease. ...

Richard Fernandez ruminates on the unfairness of first-world medicine: The UK’s top public doctor says the failure to find a cure for Eb...