Scott Simon

Professional sports teams can be multibillion-dollar enterprises that employ multimillion-dollar ath...

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Maybe the plane crash in which Yevgeny Prigozhin died last summer, after he led an uprising against ...

Valentine's Day is next Wednesday, and I'm getting my wife and daughters the gift of hearing aids — ...

In a world we know can be beset by loss and hardship, it is still appalling to hear that in the past...

A new George Carlin special is out. But it's not really George Carlin, the brilliant and audacious c...

Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, produced TV sitcoms, which are often considered t...

Mayor Eric Adams of New York is in some political "heyse vaser," as he might say in his fluent Artif...

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Pets have their own language. It's part of their charm. They paw, scratch, sniff, slobber, yowl, and...

"The Worthington Christian [[WINNING_TEAM_MASCOT]] defeated the Westerville North [[LOSING_TEAM_MASC...

Ballpark names aren't what they used to be. And I mean that — to use an overworked word of our times...

The Taliban, who shot their way to power in Afghanistan two years ago, have thrown women out of thei...

This is how Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov described the recent Iskander missile strike on the Ri...

I saw a video on Instagram this week of a mountain climber swaddled to the back of the Sherpa guide ...

Stars can be glimpsed in such unexpected places. Chonkasaurus was at rest on a pile of rotting river...

The American Library Association and PEN America say there's been a sharp increase in the number of ...

There are nearly 400 million civilian-owned guns in the U.S., according to an estimate by the Small ...

Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark was gracious in January at a ceremony to make Newark "sister cities" with...

Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is in prison this week. He may be the...

The Iranian regime's celebration of the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution came at a restive...

Who was idiberug? How did they live? What did they dream? Who did they love? Idiberug is how the eig...

In his "How To Psalmodize" Charles Simic described The Poem: It is a piece of meatCarried by a burgl...

When I saw that a robot had broken the finger of a 7-year-old boy it was playing at the Moscow Open ...

A lot of us have spent more time than ever in front of screens these past, oh, 22 months. And some u...

Busy week? I had news meetings, family stuff, and interviews, of course. And then I got a call from ...