In a series of tweets Sunday, Sarah Palin first "invented" the word "refudiate" (while, perhaps, trying to come up with "repudiate"), and then defended her word choice in another tweet […]

Racial animosity is racial animosity, whatever flavor it comes in – southern redneck scorn, poorly disguised northern liberal contempt, conservative country club hatred, or the calculated disdain of minority elites […]

Last week, the NAACP passed a resolution at its annual convention asking Tea Party leaders to condemn the racists in their ranks. The NAACP was right on the money. Regardless […]

New tools and methodologies involve the consumer in the development and review of the creative process more than ever before. The best marketers bring the consumer in early on to […]

Following the gulf oil spill disaster, the best thing that BP can do is to clean up the mess as quickly as possible. "Their actions will allow them then to […]

A conversation with the Global CEO of Razorfish.

The past doesn't so much teach us specific lessons as give us an appreciation for the complexity of the issues we face.

Problems in corporate America are often connected to the fact that management is no longer answerable to the people who actually own their companies.

Cornelius Vanderbilt couldn’t spell, but he had a consummate passion for competition.

Digitization has actually made working on biographies more laborious. The sheer amount of material means that the process actually takes longer if you're going to be thorough.

Although biographies often focus on individuals, they’re really about exploring big historical trends.

A conversation with the Cornelius Vanderbilt biographer.

Screenwriter Danny Rubin says that he came up with the idea for the classic comedy "Groundhog Day" while thinking about the idea of immortality—and, specifically, how a person might change […]

California is currently considering a couple of bills that could effectively legalize marijuana use. One plan would place a heavy excise tax on the drug—which could help plug the state's […]

Digital books and iPads are certainly changing the way that people write, but so did computers when they first came out. You just have to move with the culture and […]

Writing a novel isn't a practical, logical thing to do. The author starts by writing an outline from an "emotional place" and then becomes a "cool technician" to shape it […]

"It's very easy to write a script compared to a book," says the author. A novel is not a logical thing and it doesn't come from a logical place—a screenplay […]

It's much less fun to release a book these days—with all the necessary Twitter and Facebook promotions—than when the novelist began.

The author has "no idea" why characters from his previous novels reappear in his new ones. "It just feels right."

"There's an argument to be made, sure, that the violence in 'American Psycho' was gratuitous," says the author. But he also sees how the book is "a kind of performance […]