Paul Greenberg

The editors at the Associated Press made news themselves last week when they announced that their stylebook would no longer approve the use of the phrase Illegal Immigrant to describe...

A cancer is eating away at a once Grand Old Party, and if the party doesn't wake up and take precautions, it may wind up only a shadow of its...

. . . The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full ... But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar ... -- Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"...

In the course of human events, one thing remains certain: We forget. Somewhere over murky time, Washington's Birthday faded away, and was absorbed into another three-day holiday with no distinguishing...

My soul is in the streets of Buenos Aires. Not the greedy streets jostling with crowds and traffic, but the neighborhood streets where nothing is happening, almost invisible by force...

The Forgotten War, it's called. Which is why it was so good to have it remembered so ceremoniously and extensively this past weekend on the 60th anniversary of the tenuous...

"You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission." Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away A glance at the premiums to be charged in those health-insurance exchanges that...

"She was a lovely woman." I can almost hear my big sister Lillian's distinctive voice summing up Edith Bunker, matron and linchpin of the Bunker household on the popular "All...

It's happening again. The revolution that overthrew Egypt's long-time dictator is now being overthrown itself. One revolution leads to another, one dictatorship to another. The game never ends; the revolving...

Data-mining is the sophisticated mathematical analysis of large masses of numbers in search of telltale patterns. I won't pretend to know how it works. At the first mention of algorithms,...