Leonard Pitts, Jr. posed a thought-provoking question in the Miami Herald last week – "When the history of this era is written, who’ll be to blame?" Although blaming the school system for not teaching ...

“Was Jonathan Edwards a hard-boiled egotist who had all the answers?” a passenger next to me asked as we recently flew from Chicago to Denver. He peered over my shoulder, noting I was reading a ...

We live in a dangerous world. Fortunately, we've got Stephen Colbert fighting on our side. Colbert defends America when lesser men cut and run. Got a problem with White House wiretapping? He doesn't. ...

When "The Colbert Report" premiered five years ago this week, we didn't quite know what to make of it. Sure, "The Word" segment, in which Stephen Colbert introduced the semi-neologism "truthiness," ...

The late 20th century was the Golden Age of News. Larger-than-life newscasters earned the public’s trust and were proven worthy. They successfully policed the activities of governments, businesses and ...

In October 2005, Stephen Colbert invented a new word: truthiness. In a short monologue for The Colbert Report, a satirical show where the comedian played a caricature of a conservative blowhard cable ...

A decade ago, the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster performed a great public service by bestowing its “Word of the Year” award to “truthiness.” Truthiness has become one of my favorite words. It is ...

Truth or truthiness? As I scientist I hope for truth. I hope we all evaluate evidence, determine the real true state of the world, and use that information to guide choices. Yeah right. I know better.

I will later regret having ever typed these words, but here goes: Stephen Colbert was right. Truthiness reigns. Last year, the Comedy Central host eschewed truth for “truthiness”: that which might not ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness." The word — if one can call it that — ...

Few people are immune to irrational fears and—like many others—I’m pretty scared of spiders. While I don’t experience the symptoms of a debilitating phobia, the unexpected sight of a creepy-crawly ...