Al Jaffee, Mad Magazine’s inventive cartoonist, dies at 102
It was in 1964 that Jaffee created the Mad Fold-In, an illustration-with-text feature on the inside of the magazine’s back cover that seemed at first...
Spiritual sojourn On Easter, an inquiry on why we’re here
8 April 2023 5:30 AMI heard church bells ringing from the Presbyterian chapel down the street — St. Johns, in Devon, Pa. I stood there by my father’s body, listening, the...
Back of the pack: Count on outsiders to solve problems. Just ask these...
7 April 2023 1:30 PMIn a study published on Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Caicoya and his colleagues reported that around 38 percent of the animals...
Facing justice: Trump, the incredible shrinking defendant
7 April 2023 5:30 AMIt was finally evidence of the justice system doing its best to operate as normal, to treat a former president as it would any other defendant, trying...
Fasten your seatbelts: What you need to know about turbulence
6 April 2023 1:30 PMThe recent reports raise questions about whether turbulence is getting more frequent and intense.
Net Loss: The internet was an economic disappointment
6 April 2023 5:30 AMLife being what it is, several people came back at me, citing a prediction I made in 1998 that the internet’s growth would soon slow and that “by 2005...
Historical culling: Mass Yellowstone hunt kills 1,100 bison
5 April 2023 1:30 PMOfficials said they had no choice but to approve the lengthy culling of the roughly 6,000-member herd as the animals instinctually cross the park...
Unjust order: Rich world’s high tolerance for cruelty
5 April 2023 5:30 AMThe people who died in the Mexican detention center were similarly trapped.