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The unique, unifying quality of sports

Before three-point shots and slam dunks, a basketball game was played in Kentucky between the West Virginia University Mountaineers and Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats. Back then, in the late 1950s, Kentucky was the center of the college basketball world. Rupp was a celebrated coach, a wizard ...

Finding common ground on digital devices

Q. The Olympics are over and I’m bored. I don’t know what to do with myself. It’s not really that the Olympics are over as much as my parents monitor my social media use on my phone and Chromebook. And I’m allowed to watch only the TV they approve – which is how I got so into the ...

AI: A look in the mirror

Things are starting to look like we may be the only species that has a chance to stop its own potential demise. The apes never held hearings about Homo sapiens taking over, but Congress, Silicon Valley, and cable news talking heads are debating the future of artificial intelligence. ...

UFOs, Greenland and Donald Trump

At Tuesday night's State of the Union address, President Trump, speaking of the Democratic lawmakers in the House chamber, proclaimed, "These people are crazy. I'm telling you, they're crazy." Not so fast, Mr. President. Here are two examples of real crazy. Both originate with the president ...

Field kids’ tough questions with honesty

Q. I saw your recent response to a parent and thought – I can ask my question too! I hope that’s okay. I’m the mom of a very inquisitive 5-year-old. When I say inquisitive, I mean there isn’t an hour of the day when I’m not asked something. I actually enjoy it. She keeps me on my ...

A look back at Obama-Romney

When David Simas left Washington in 2011 and set out for Chicago and the Obama re-election campaign, things "looked bleak" for the incumbent president. For one thing, unemployment remained high in the messy aftermath of the Great Recession, a result of the housing market bust that occurred in ...