Is time an inflexible metronome, mechanically ticking down a one-way street, where past, present, and future are safely kept apart? Our highly structured society, with its schedules and deadlines, tends to reinforce this view. Yet from a scientific perspective, Einstein theorized, and later ...

The first person to live with our family was a 7-year-old foster child. Our kids came to us one day after holding their own family council to inform their parents that our family should foster a child. My husband and I were so caught off guard we agreed. We fulfilled the required training and, ...

It seems like everyone in Chicago has a story about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week at the age of 84. Here's mine. I was a young reporter when I first talked to him, working the weekend and holiday shifts, which meant I often covered some of the bleakest stories in the newspaper. ...

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that stood out not for its bombast but for its clarity. In a room filled with political figures from across the Atlantic — and from both parties at home — Rubio was unmistakably the adult in the ...

America is tired. Not tired of debate. Not tired of conviction. Americans can handle disagreement. What they are weary of is perpetual combat. They are weary of the temperature always being set at boiling. They are weary of economic anxiety, cultural distrust and political trench warfare that ...