Great article in The New Yorker about America's gun culture, and almost in passing it mentions some superb statistics:  The bad news ...

I haven't seen the movie Bully yet, but I've read plenty about it, including this article in last week's The Week . I love the f...

My wife Rachel got this smoothie maker as a gift. (Yum!) It's hard to read in my fuzzy phone photo, but the company's name is Back t...

A new World Bank report on global poverty is so positive it even surprised me. The key points: Dire poverty continues to fall worldwide. No...

There's been a lot of talk in the past year about the 1% vs the 99% wealthiest Americans. And while I sympathize with many of Occupy Wal...

I found this today, forgot I had taken this screenshot a few months ago. It's the home page of the New York Times . Notice the "Bre...

Crime goes up in a recession, right? More people are unemployed, and some of them get desperate. It's only common sense. Well, think aga...