The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

In building a biography of Jesus, we began last month by charting the years in which he lived. Now we move to Jesus’s family.

Angola $113/day, LCIW $184/day, parish jail $26/day, supervision $6/day. See 30/180/365-day scenarios and savings.

Ohio State and Florida State got into the win column. Texas and Alabama did not. The first big weekend of major college football is in the books, and now, players and athletic departments can settle ...

To find a multi-bagger stock, what are the underlying trends we should look for in a business? Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and ...

Dear Rusty: I’m ready to apply for my Social Security benefits, and I’m aware of how my benefits are calculated. What I would like to know about is how the application process actually works and how ...

I came across a social media post that made it into my to-do column so that I would remember to write a column about it. It was about writing sentences that use the same word in two different senses, ...

Perhaps it is the pregnancy you lost early on, or even the child lost to illness or accident. Having lost my first pregnancy while overseas, it made us realize how badly we wanted to be parents, and ...

"Carpe diem. Seize the day!" In the movie, "Dead Poets Society," Robin Williams made that phrase his motto and did all he could to help his students understand what it meant. Unlike Ben Franklin's ...

For some 50 years or so, generations of college students participated in psychological testing. It was easy money for goofy tasks: sort silverware, look at images with your left eye, then your right.