Have you ever met or spoken with someone and quickly realized there wasn’t going to be an actual conversation? That doesn’t happen often for me, because I’m usually able to relate to all kinds of people, regardless of our differing backgrounds, life experiences or political feelings. ...

What is something that disappeared from American life over the years and mostly went unnoticed? You’ve probably come across prompts like those if you spend any time at all on a social-media platform. My default answers are common sense, civility and shame. In other words, a lot of people ...

Legend has it that a man visited our newsroom one day years ago insisting that he had come up with the cure for cancer. As the story goes, the first person he encountered was a harried assistant sports editor. Upon hearing the man’s pitch, the sports guy responded: “Can you come back ...

Everyone else is doing it, so I feel like I should write something about President Donald Trump. Here goes, but first a disclaimer: People who like Trump might become triggered by what follows. People who don’t like Trump may also be triggered. As someone I used to work for once said, ...

When someone finally gets around to inventing a time machine, I know when and where I’m going. Others will want to take care of the big stuff — killing young Adolf Hitler, saving Abraham Lincoln, JFK, MLK and RFK and preventing 9/11 — so my time-travel goals are less ambitious, but they ...

Somewhere on one of my social media accounts is perhaps the only video evidence that I once did something really stupid. I’m not giving away the platform because as I write this, just a few select people know that this short video exists. No, I didn’t have someone film me beating up a guy ...