March 28, 2012 8:24 AM
Last week the popular NPR show This American Life did something completely unprecedented in the history of the program. It retracted an entire episode. This decision has garnered media attention for two reasons. First, This American Life (TAL) is a...
July 11, 2011 10:52 AM
My husband and I have joked that our 2006 purchase of a townhome in a blue-collar suburb of Chicago must have been the single transaction that popped the housing price bubble in America. Within weeks after we signed the papers,...
October 12, 2010 10:20 AM
In 1998 while working as a reporter in Oregon, I wrote about the rising trend toward younger, more violent criminal offenders. "We've been warned that we are going to be dealing with a whole generation of kids without a conscience,"...
October 8, 2010 9:29 AM
Earlier this week, British biologist Robert G. Edwards won the Nobel Prize in medicine for developing in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology. Edwards and his late research partner, Patrick Steptoe, pioneered the process by which the first so-called “test tube” baby...
June 16, 2010 10:00 AM
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is Barbara Kingsolver’s captivating account of a year spent eating only homegrown and locally raised food. Known best for The Poisonwood Bible, her 1998 novel about Christian missionaries in the Congo, Kingsolver...