Walking through a driving blizzard last January, the actress Lois Smith took the arm of an agent and posed a directional question.

aSo is this where I should step?a Smith asked as her foot hovered above a treacherous curb in the old town of Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival. aIt...

Some friends threw me a surprise birthday party last month. They placed a chocolate cake lit with candles before me and told me to make a wish for the year ahead. I immediately blurted out, a24-hour electricity and air conditioning.a They laughed and suggested I wish for something more realistic.

Monday morning, just as the workweek is getting underway, the sun over the entire continental U.S. will dim and, in some places, go dark altogether as a total solar eclipse traverses the country from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic Ocean.

It may be tempting to read the solar eclipse as a message...

A clichA(c) is haunting America a the clichA(c) of a second civil war.

aAmerica is currently fighting its second civil war,a conservative columnist Dennis Prager declared in January. aIs a Second Civil War in the Making?a the left-wing website Alternet asked a few months later. In March, Foreign Policy...

When a van plowed into pedestrians in Barcelona last week, President Trump didnat wait for investigators to determine who the attackers were. Within minutes of the first reports, he tweeted: aThe United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to...

These are not normal times.

The man in the White House is reckless and unmanageable, a danger to the Constitution, a threat to our democratic institutions. Last week some of his worst qualities were on display: his moral vacuity and his disregard for the truth, as well as his stubborn resistance...

Dear Liz: I'm 32 and have a little over $100,000 in student debt from undergraduate and graduate school. I'm trying to get my professional life on track, and I canat figure out how to pay the loans off. Everything I see online seems shady. What are the questions I need to be asking myself? What...

Southern California residents tried to view a partial solar eclipse, but in many areas fog obscured the sun. In downtown Los Angeles, the fog lifted just enough for staff photographer for Bruce Cox to get the image above.

The Los Angeles Times' weather story the next morning included the following...

Powerball officials say there was no grand prize winner in the latest drawing, meaning one of the nation's largest lottery jackpots will continue growing.

Maura McCann of the New Hampshire Lottery says no ticket matched all six numbers following Saturday night's drawing. The winning numbers are:...

Less rowdy than the sputtered push for single-payer healthcare and less fraught than the battle over Obamacareas future, the concern over the cost of prescription drug prices has been overshadowed for the past year by the marquee healthcare battles gripping Sacramento and Washington.

Thatas not...