Protecting a Hero Too Long

Long fact, literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction: The genre is hard to define, essential, and imperiled. Paul Elie explains

Open Thread

Donald Trump and Markwayne Mullin Insist That Politics Should Prevail Over Principle

US Institutional Decay Is Threatening Global Finance

'What Are the Goals?' Some Republicans Questioning $200 Billion for Iran War.

California’s Tax Proposal Is Already Backfiring

Adam Carolla: Why No One Under 30 Trusts Legacy Media

Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

Facebook Guilty

An Intensely Focused Mind

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Long Civil Rights Movement

Judges and Justices Should Be Independent, Trump Says, As Long As They Side With Him

The Long History and Uncertain Future of US Weather Forecasts

Not too long ago, boredom was an understudied phenomenon. What's been learned? It doesn't foster 

The ACLU, Long Leery of the Second Amendment, Joins the NRA in Urging SCOTUS To Uphold Pot Users' Gun Rights

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

The YIMBY Hero Everyone Is Shouting At

Your Genes Determine How Long You’ll Live Far More Than Previously Thought

The perilous allure of machine-generated writing has a surprisingly long history

Physicists Uncover How Long It Takes to Get the Last Drop of Syrup