Youth may not be an excuse for plagiarism. But it is an explanation.

What this age of Internet euphoria looks like to those of us who were in the game last time around. For one, bubbles aren’t completely bad.

Depressed about the Democrats? Revolted by the Republicans? You’re not alone. Here in New York (with its Republican mayor and Democratic voters), a third way is being plotted. Follow the purple-brick road.

Could the country’s insane fame fixation maybe, finally—fingers crossed—be coming to an end? One hopeful sign: Paris Hilton.

Harvard’s president didn’t get expelled so much for his ideology as for his naïveté. And the university would do well to pick a Larry 2.0 next.

What’s the matter with Islam is also the matter with Kansas. But who says freedom of speech isn’t a little negotiable?

By framing the eavesdropping debate as a manly-man contest, Bush & Co. are distracting us from the conversation we should be having about privacy.

John Huey sits atop Time and Fortune and 149 other magazines, ready to have some fun. Only now the good old days of big media are history.

How running for president, alas, makes her even less likable.

The chronicler of the American twilight is going into semi-retirement. Will Harper’s magazine become less of a lefty echo chamber?