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Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.
I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.
Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.
Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.
We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.
I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit.
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging.
A 401(k) is essentially a basket of mutual funds intended to help people save for retirement.
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.
Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself.
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.
Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals.
No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.
Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.
Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.
Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.
The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies.
In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.
Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.
In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.
Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.
The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.
Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.
It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.
Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.
London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.
Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious moments.
Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet.
Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.
Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch.
Without federal assistance, most elderly Americans would be unable to afford long-term care - and most nursing homes would be unable to keep the doors open.
Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.
I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.
Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.'
As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.
For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports - and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities were hard to come by, anyway.
While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.
Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.
The first few days without a cellphone were difficult. I felt liberated from the static of Facebook and Twitter but feared that I had missed some email or call that someone had died.
While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.
When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.
As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.
Trucking is the backbone of U.S. commerce. Consumers rely on the industry to move the parts for their cars, the food for their dinner tables, and, increasingly, the goods they order online.
Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.