In my new column in the print TIME magazine, I review the HBO movie Game Change, about the vice presidential nomination and trainwreck campaign of Sarah Palin in 2008. I don’t think it’s a very good ...

Want to do some time travel? Find a wormhole. That’s the tunnel in the space-time continuum that connects two disparate points — and a plot device for countless works of science fiction from “Star ...

Sunday is my last broadcast as host of Weekend All Things Considered at NPR West. I'm moving back to Boston, and with packing well underway, after the broadcast I'll be sleeping between piles of ...

Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, ...