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Why remake a bland but beloved thriller? Because movies should at least try to be as dangerous as life.

The possibility that education can be unbundled, and that, as an information good, it may be possible to radically reduce the cost of providing at least some types of education could have important social consequences.

His running argument with the Obama administration has spawned a noisy side debate all its own: By leading the criticism, is Cheney doing more harm than good to the causes he has taken up and to the political well-being of his party?

Two new biographies — one of Helen Gurley Brown and the other of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson — offer cautionary tales about mixing sex and the workplace.

In a restored edition of a great classic, sexual anxiety looms large.

Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars.

In his new memoir, My Remarkable Journey, the talk legend recalls how a favor from Jackie Gleason led to an unforgettable pair of nights with Frank Sinatra.

At almost 40, Jon Meacham, with his recessive posture, his slow gait, his bone-dry jokes, may not strike you immediately as the man who can make your magazine look good.

The so-called Sunni Awakening, in which American forces formed tactical alliances with local sheikhs, has been credited with dampening the insurgency in much of Iraq. But new evidence suggests that the Sunnis were offering the same deal as early as 2004—one that was eagerly embraced by commanders on the ground, but rejected out of hand […]