Americans like being the best at things. We’re the best at baseball, jazz, freedom, national parks — pretty much anything Ken Burns has already covered. Yes, living in the Land of Opportunity is ...

One of the first things new copy editors learn is that they should change the contraction ‘til to the word till, or, in more formal contexts, until. Then, if they’re anything like me, they spend the ...

I beseech you, forces behind any and all realignment efforts in conferences coast to coast: Stop it. We're creeping up on the 48-hour mark here. Just more than two days remain until the most tiresome ...

My kid brother and I were sharing our Sunday morning with 5,000 or so Mary Kay Cosmetics saleswomen. We were at a baseball park — Minneapolis’ Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome — in the fall of 1987, ...