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A version of this story first appeared in the May 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. NBC executives stood before a sea of media buyers in Avery Fisher Hall 15 years ago this month and unveiled a series they hoped would defy television’s odds. The show, titled The West Wing, from Sports…

Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! SUPPORT THE POST Source: Shutterstock.com I sit in front of the microphone, looking through a window at my producer in the control booth. I’m about to begin one of the scariest jobs of my life. I don’t know why I agreed to…

Last week The Atlantic published a tough article on cities’ recent experience with privatization—by which they meant making contracts with private organizations to do what public employees previously did. The article gave examples of government contracts that led to lower performance, increased…

In preparation for leaving Google, I wanted a new computer in time to make sure I could get all the non-Google stuff (pictures, blogging software, music) moved off my Googlemac. I got a maxed-out MacBook Pro 15" (16G RAM, 1T SSD) thus dumping an estimated $1,000 profit into Apple’s cash hoard. What…

Omar Marques / Getty The U.S. Is Quietly Pausing Some Arms Sales to Europe The Department of Defense created a list of weapons to stockpile. Vivian Salama Publishing’s New Microgenre Boris Kachka Have You Considered Not Polluting the Water? Yair Rosenberg What Robert Redford Knew About Winning Sally…

Paleolithic diets have become all the rage, but are they getting our ancestral diet all wrong? Right now, one half of all Americans are on a diet. The other half just gave up on their diets and are on

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John Aldridge on the deck of the Anna Mary.Credit...Daniel Shea for The New York Times Looking back, John Aldridge knew it was a stupid move. When you’re alone on the deck of a lobster boat in the middle of the night, 40 miles off the tip of Long Island, you don’t take chances. But he had work to…

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Daily Comment October 18, 2013 After a week in which it looked like the Great American Way was closer to a suicide pact than a governing arrangement—with so many undemocratic choke points that the polity strangles—a whole new way of thinking about our domestic arrangements may be in order. A woman…

By Stephanie Simon09/25/2013 11:14 PM EDTUpdated: 09/26/2013 12:44 PM EDT Taxpayers send nearly $2 billion a year to cyber schools that let students from kindergarten through 12th grade receive a free public education entirely online. The schools, many managed by for-profit companies, are great at…

In This Recipe Using a stand mixer to add eggs to the hot water dough saves you from the strenuous task of vigorously beating them in, while also ensuring the gnocchi have a consistent texture. We've all met gnocchi before. Those potato-based pasta pillows that at their best are light and bouncy,…

The Briefcase When a Wayland history teacher stumbled onto the papers of a deceased West Roxbury war veteran, he assigned his students to write the mystery man’s biography. What they found was Boston’s version of Forrest Gump. By Eric Randall· 9/3/2013, 9:00 a.m. Get a compelling long read and…

T here is nothing quite like a hit over the middle in a football game. A ballet-graceful wide receiver at full extension grabs a tightly thrown pass only to be smacked down like a rag doll by a heat-s

Glenn Fleishman tracks humanity's vicarious voyage into the outer reaches of the solar system—and the strange, indefinite transition to the place beyond it. NASA confirmed Thursday that the Voyager 1 probe, launched 36 years ago, has achieved a milestone beyond any other man-made object. In August…

The Sporting Scene September 6, 2013 One night in early April, 1958, Joyce Glassman’s doorbell rang and woke her. An aspiring novelist who worked as a secretary at a small publishing firm, Glassman lived in a tenement on East Thirteenth Street, in Manhattan. When she opened the door, she found Jack…

Page-Turner September 6, 2013 In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to the manicule (☞) to the octothorpe, a.k.a. the hashtag. Many of these…

You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields, and the country's competitive edge is threatened. It pretty much doesn't matter what country you're talking about—the United States is…

Credit: Photograpg by Jose Mandojana On a sunny Tuesday last October, Oracle Team USA were taking their new sailboat out for a spin. The boat – a 72-foot wing-sail catamaran called an AC72, funded by software billionaire Larry Ellison – had been engineered over hundreds of thousands of man-hours to…

Never agree to serve on a hymnal committee. First of all, if your church (like mine) is still using hymnals, that’s probably a sign that its membership (like mine) is aging and shrinking. Second, one can be certain that a new hymnal — or any new decision about congregational singing and music — will…

Annals of Medicine Slow Ideas July 22, 2013 We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change.Illustration by Harry Campbell Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly? Consider the very different…

Of all the occupational golden ages to come and go in the twentieth century—for doctors, journalists, ad-men, autoworkers—none lasted longer, felt cushier, and was all in all more golden than the reign of the law partner. There was the generous salary, the esteem of one’s neighbors, work that was…

"Keep going straight here," Joe Biden says. We've been at this for hours, climbing in and out of the SUV to look at stuff, a water tower, a stone wall, the house where the most beautiful girl in the w

Bible reading drops Biden & white evangelicals Sweden’s female priests underpaid Revisiting Galileo vs. the church House votes to end travel ban How to give children joy Thursday, July 23, 2020 State of the Bible: Left unread during the coronavirus pandemic Religion News Service: The number of…

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Because this country’s Independence Day falls on a Thursday this year, I’m sure there will be churches that celebrate it on the Sunday before July 4 and the Sunday after it. Past the celebration of Communion, I’m not sure what we have in mind for the 7th at Salem Covenant, but aside from the…

Riff My Kids Are Obsessed With Technology, and It’s All My Fault Credit... Illustration by Tom Gauld A few months ago, I attended my daughter Josie’s kindergarten open house, the highlight of which wa

This interview with Laszlo Bock , senior vice president of people operations at Google , was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Most songwriters in Nashville want to get their songs on the radio. Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymnbooks. The Gettys, originally from Belfast, Ireland, hope to revive the art of hymn writing at a time when the most popular new church songs are…