Even if human beings came with actual expiration dates, would we necessarily trust them?

While I’m no spring chicken—unless you happen to know of a slightly balding, somewhat overweight young fowl with arthritis and a bad back—I still feel young enough to want to understand the times in which I’m living.

Decades ago, as my high school girlfriend and I were about to leave for Disneyland, her father–an imaginative, witty man…

Breaking News: Before today’s column officially begins, we’re getting word of a scientific breakthrough.

Since the word “chaos” is currently being bandied about as recklessly as “narcissism” was a few years ago (along with the everlasting “I have abandonment issues”), …

For about three weeks, just before the official beginning of this action-packed winter, Sacramento and our fellow neighbors in the Sierra lowlands were engulfed by a cold drear of fog that made the days gunmetal-drab and the nights barely visible…

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat,”

Why do so many people begin to sound artificially intelligent when they hold forth on Artificial Intelligence?

Among the innumerable business maxims we keep in our heads, we might opt to consider adding this one: Consultants don’t get sick.

In the waning days of 2025, the Wall Street Journal dipped its HR toes into office do’s and don’ts under the headline, “Test Your Etiquette Skills For How to Behave at Work.”

I made a rash decision a few weeks back that I’m continuing to rue. Let me parse that sentence for a moment.

Most of us have heard of reputation consultants, that army of search engineers and social-media influencers who rush to their clients’ side to reverse negative public perceptions of them.