A friend of mine is the Executive Director for an organization with global reach. He is intelligent and driven, but constantly distracted. At any given time he will have Twitter, Gmail, Facebook ...

I don’t mean to josh; I mean this in earnest. I think it is time to eliminate the office of White House press secretary. There is no point in having a permanent Commender-in-Chief to tell us how ...

My discovery of the "unimportance" of politics began when I was a student at Willamette University. Theodore Shay, a political science professor, observed that Republicans could take Portland only ...

On Tuesday, the Republican Party chose Cleveland as the site of its 2016 national convention. My initial response, in an effort to determine the electoral effect of the decision, was to look to ...

The Times reports that some of the companies lobbying Washington on their relative unimportance are General Electric, Hartford Financial Services Group, Allstate Corporation, John Paulson’s hedge fund ...

After four years of doing without schooling, Negro junior high students in Virginia’s Prince Edward County returned to class in September 1963. In the course of the next 18 months, the average ...

The most talked-about essay of the past week is undoubtedly Robert Kagan's "Our constitutional crisis is already here" in The Washington Post, a long, gripping examination of the very serious ...

Academy Award-winning screen legend Sophia Loren has been known for decades as one of Hollywood's classic glamorous actresses. Now, at 86, her image of beauty has changed over time, she told ...

“We had to learn how to manage our unimportance. And I know it sounds a bit corny and funny, but our people had to do that for 75 years, he said. “We still do.” This story was originally ...

waiting for the morning light / Scenes of unimportance, photos in a frame, things that go to make up a life / As we relive our lives in what we tell you. Dan Perry is the former Cairo-based Middle ...