Every goddamn day: 04/20/26

     Northwestern went to the Rose Bowl in 1996. My strongest memory of that season is a co-worker, knowing that I’m an NU graduate, naively...

      Silence speaks volumes.      Particularly in journalism, which has rituals as strict as any kabuki.      In obituaries, for instance, ...

     My initial temptation was to play today's post as just another reader submitting an update on a writing project. But of course toda...

     The median age for Americans is almost 39, according to the U.S. Census.      Which might be surprising — we feel like a much older nat...

           The cliche about the suburbs is that they're one big undifferentiated anodyne nowhere populated by glozing neuters, to borrow...

     My mother laid the trap.      “So what are you doing today?” she asked.      I fell in, telling her, in my naive, Lucy-and-the-football...

     Whenever I hear of "food deserts," those urban neighborhoods without access to grocery stores and fresh food, I feel a pang o...