Julia Keller

Capitalism is wonderful -- they paid me a bundle to say that -- but at times it resembles nothing so much as a toddler in a high chair, whacking a...

Just as surely as God made little green apples (and, as we know courtesy of J.K. Rowling, big green trolls), we are in the midst of an onslaught of bad...

Finding myself a bit too cheerful as Thanksgiving approached this year, I decided to rent "Home for the Holidays," the 1995 movie directed by Jodie Foster. Mood calibration is crucial...

On Sept. 11, Michelle Kranicke danced. On Monday, amid news of a plane crash in New York, she danced again. And she danced in between, too, as the daily news...

When Tino Martinez hit a two-run homer with one on and two out in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game last week -- I've now bagged the...

Chris Matthews was mad -- no, he was furious. The host of MSNBC's "Hardball" raged. He fumed. He waved his arms and raised his voice. His face turned red and...

Following the announcement this week that talk show host Oprah Winfrey had yanked a planned program about the latest author chosen by her book club--unprecedented in the club's five-year history--the...

Sometimes you want to throw it all out, just toss it clean off the planet. Fling it away with such force that it can't do any more diabolical harm. The...

These are anxious times. These are times when "meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven./The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,/And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change." Those words come...

If a modern Rip Van Winkle nodded off in 1980 and suddenly woke up, he might inquire -- were he of a political turn of mind -- about the fate...