Editor’s Pick

Birth of an Obsession – With her strong will, busy travel schedule and breathless blogging, Laguna Niguel dentist Orly Taitz has become the most controversial figure in the effort to prove that President Barack Obama is foreign-born

What I’d really like to tell the bores in my life

How my father’s obsession with his front yard mowed over my childhood

In the novels of Jodi Picoult, terrible things happen to children of middle-class parentage: they become terminally ill, or are maimed, gunned down, killed in accidents, molested, abducted, bullied, traumatized, stirred to violence. The assault on any individual family is typically mounted from angles multiple and unforeseen.

Why is the most powerful health care lobbyist playing nice? Story on Karen Ignagni

Profile of The New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson

The lightning bolt came out of the heavens and struck Ann and me the first time we saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. My family was living on the marine base in Camp Pendleton, California, and we’d all gathered around the little black-and-white TV at our grandmother’s in La Jolla. Most people didn’t […]

“Years ago I was a lighting fixture salesperson, and when I was 25 years old, I wasn’t enjoying my job that much. I quit my job because I won a Halloween contest dressed up as Bill Clinton in San Diego. I quit my job and became a professional Bill Clinton impersonator. My company used me […]