Sometimes, we just need a quick and easy laugh—and there's nothing quicker or easier than picking up the phone and dialing in ...

If we’re lucky in the Opinion section, we work through our beliefs completely and support them with great arguments. But sometimes, we don’t need a deeper reason or great explanation to hold our ...

Comedian Louis C.K. recently went on a social-media rant about the Common Core State Standards and testing, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz blogged this week. Within the Twitter barrage of ...

Funny Is Money Five years ago, Funny or Die launched big with a trash-talking 2-year-old. Now the creators of Hollywood's breakout viral content site have Mike Tyson as Herman Cain, Marion Cotillard ...

In his classic book A Theory of Justice, philosopher John Rawls argues for liberalism as a political ideology with a thought experiment. The subject is in the “original position” where “…no one knows ...

It might seem a little odd that one single company is now worth more than the entire publicly traded market of a major economy. But that's what has happened to Apple just recently: that one single ...

This is an interesting piece of research by Mark Perry. He's looked at the total amount of advertising captured by the US newspaper industry and plotted it over time, adjusting for inflation as he ...

It’s “Mandatory”: “Weird Al” Yankovic is Number One. The long-haired comic musician’s new album, “Mandatory Fun,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart of best-selling albums with 104,000 in ...

As any superstitious person will tell you, 13 is hardly any old number. For centuries the sinister prime has been associated with bad luck, especially on Friday. But where did the negative association ...

As any superstitious person will tell you, 13 is hardly any old number. For centuries the sinister prime has been associated with bad luck, especially on Friday. But where did the negative association ...