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Plus a week in the life of Jerry Springer

I’m about 2/5 of the way into Create Your Own Economy, the new book by Tyler Cowen. It’s an odd book in many ways (it opens with a...

Who would still fall for a Cold War ‘femme fatale’ routine today? Diplomats, apparently.

Obviously, I’m a sucker for stories that explore the subtle (and not-so) mechanisms of status display, especially when that...

The last Galapagos tortoise of his kind has chance at fatherhood

Quarterly report predicts return to growth. But unemployment will continue to rise.

Quarterback Warren Moon on Michael Vick, racism, and why he wouldn’t trade his five Grey Cups for one Super Bowl win

Retired major-league pitcher Jim Parque confesses to using human-growth hormone, and explains why

’You Can’t Do That on Television’ star dies

Executive literary editor takes a red pen to her address