Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state - foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor - are emphatically not those desired in a head of state: So be it.

I've waited for a novel from Charles Yu with eager anticipation since being bowled over by his 2006 short story collection, 'Third Class Superhero.'

I have spent 30 years working with police officers, doing everything I can to help them do their jobs, honoring the sacrifices they make every day.

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better...

In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

It's worth knowing that there's very different sets of regulation for the print press and for broadcast media. They're different things, particularly during campaign periods.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

We are not a socialist nation. We are a compassionate nation.

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

There's nothing like stumbling upon some dimly-lit pub with nothing but pints and toasties on offer; or finding the most unkempt, underwhelming cafe that serves the best crab claws in the world; or a...

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a notable Swiss artist and restorer. The eventual suspect has the overlong teeth and shambling...

The most important funder of the British Brexit campaign had odd Russian contacts. So did some cabinet ministers in Poland's supposedly anti-Russian, hard-right government, elected after a campaign...

I do strive to be the Andy Kaufman of TV news.

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the...

It shouldn't be normal to seldom see a single female face in a managerial position or on the boards of the biggest media companies, or to feel out of place sitting in a meeting room full of...

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

At Bank of America, customers shunned a product that offered fee-free checking without access to branches.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that...

When I was growing up the obvious antisemites were the knuckle-draggers in the National Front.