A profile of Alex Trebek.

Rise of the wonk.

"And far from the ivory towers of music academia, mostly on his blog, Elgar’s Enigma Theme Unmasked, Bob Padgett has emerged as perhaps the most prolific and dogged of all Enigma seekers. His solution, which has caught the attention of classical music scholars, lies at the bottom of a rabbit hole of anagrams, cryptography, the poet Longfellow, the composer Mendelssohn, the Shroud of Turin, and Jesus, all of which he believes he found hiding in plain sight in the music".

Reporting on the “American Way of Life,” two years after the end of World War II.

What it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious.

One of the little tweaks I made the first time I got the job was to change the slogan on the table of contents from “A Journal of Politics and the Arts” back to the original: “A Weekly Journal of Opinion.” All the fine reporting notwithstanding, what The New Republic did best, had always done best, was opinion. Its politics were polemical, its art was the art of argument.

“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”

The formative years of the Republican star.

James Reston’s problematic proximity to the powerful.

On the culture of abuse and coverup at Patrick Henry College.

“The problem with Christie isn’t merely that he is a bully. It’s that his political career is built on a rotten foundation.”

The Russian president has crushed all dissent, but he’s more vulnerable than ever.

Doug Band gets close to, then falls out with, Bill and Hillary.