Given the conflicting, contradictory stories swirling around the release of “Go Set a Watchman” by HarperCollins Publishers two weeks ago, it’s impossible to know what to believe.So I’ve distilled the situation down to the two possibilities that...

I saw Luna take off, but I didn’t see her land a fraction of a second later. I didn’t need to; I heard the scream that came from her when she hit the hardwood floor.She scrambled away somehow, and I ran after her, hoping she was more scared than hurt....

Last Friday, David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, released the results of a three-week investigation into the use of a racist chant by members of the university’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity.They sang the chant...

There’s no question that “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams “misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003,” as NBC News President Deborah Turness put it in a Feb. 10 memo to her staff. Williams had acknowledged...

The Chris Kyle I know doesn’t actually exist.He’s an imaginary construct, a dramatic fabrication by screenwriter Jason Hall and director Clint Eastwood for their movie “America Sniper.” It is loosely based on “American Sniper,” a 2012 autobiography...

What matters now?It’s been four months since the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, by Darren Wilson, 28, a white police officer, after a 90-second daytime encounter in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.Since then, there...

It’s 8 in the morning on Oct. 11, and I’m standing under a drizzly gray sky on a sprawling muddy lawn behind a rock-solid limestone building in the middle of nowhere. Everything feels wrong.This place – the limestone structure and several outbuildings;...

Last Thursday (Aug. 28), about an hour and half into a two-hour public gathering at Wellspring Church in Ferguson, a young African-American woman named Johnetta Elzie took the microphone and spoke with a clear, fearless voice.“I came down because I...

It feels as though we’ve been drowning in terrible news all summer, and every day seems to bring more waves crashing down on our hapless heads. Some people I know — people who pride themselves on being well-informed — have told me they’ve become...

Forgive me, for I have binged.I have used the two Internet-based video services to which I subscribe — Netflix and Amazon Instant Video — to watch multiple episodes of a TV series in one sitting.Thus have I watched “The Americans,” “Call the...

Next week, the Federal Commu-nications Commission plans to propose new rules that its chairman claims will preserve the Internet as a free, fair and open communications medium for all.It seems far more likely that the rules will radically distort the...