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CORRECTION APPENDEDINDELIBLE INKThe Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free PressBy Richard KlugerIllustrated. 346 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. More than half a century after [...]

Byline: BY BILL KELLER PRISON REVOLT A former law-and-order conservative takes a lead on criminal-justice reform. In the mid-nineteen-eighties, shortly after the convictions of six members of the House of [...]

Through the weeks of melodic mourning and rose-colored reminiscence that followed the death of Nelson Mandela, I occasionally found myself exchanging bursts of frustration with other journalists who were there [...]

THE BULLY PULPIT Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism By Doris Kearns Goodwin Illustrated. 909 pp. Simon & Schuster. $40. If you find the grubby [...]

By the time I met Cyril Ramaphosa in 1992, he was Nelson Mandela's choreographer at the negotiations that would eventually bring three centuries of white dominion to a thrilling and [...]

FIVE MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS By Ward Wilson Illustrated. 187 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $22. THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics By Paul Bracken 306 [...]

Presents letters to the editor written about previously published articles. Responses to the article "How to be a Smart Patient," that appeared in the November 8 issue. Letters concerning "A Shoddy October Surprise," an editorial written by John Leo; Reader's comments on the article "The Morals and Values Crowd," published in the November 15 issue and concerning the election analysis from the U.S. presidential election.

At the end of January, New York's Conservative Party, the most influential of the minor parties that complicate the state's politics, celebrated its 50th anniversary at a Holiday Inn near [...]

THE STRONGMAN Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia By Angus Roxburgh Illustrated. 338 pp. I. B. Tauris. $28. THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin [...]

As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress [...]

ARGUABLY Essays By Christopher Hitchens 788 pp. Twelve. $30. Anyone who occasionally opens one of our more serious periodicals has learned that the byline of Christopher Hitchens is an opportunity [...]

From the Magazine Ten years after the attacks, we memorialize the loss and we mark the heroism, but there is no organized remembrance of the other feelings that day aroused: [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify [...]

Eleven summers ago I was sent to a management program at the Wharton School to be prepped for bigger things. Along with lectures on finance and entrepreneurship and the like, [...]

Whether the scandal afflicting News Corp. represents the beginning of the fall of the House of Murdoch or just another thrilling episode in the career of the Teflon tycoon, I [...]

There was exciting news last month among the Twitterati. Brian Stelter, The New York Times prodigy and master of social media, announced to his 64,373 followers that he is going [...]

ABSOLUTE MONARCHS A History of the Papacy By John Julius Norwich Illustrated. 512 pp. Random House. $30. John Julius Norwich makes a point of saying in the introduction to his [...]

Supporters of same-sex marriage say gay people are entitled to be fully equal citizens, including in their yearning to make families. Opponents say the state has no business bestowing the [...]

If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Dear Mr. Keller: Last night on the ''PBS NewsHour,'' they had a story about some Los Angeles Times reporters who uncovered corruption in a nearby, small city in [...]

Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED This has been a grievous season for the tight-knit tribe of combat photographers. For The Times, the sorrow began last October, when a land mine exploded under Joao [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED My colleague David Leonhardt, an economics writer who somehow makes common sense seem provocative, won a Pulitzer Prize the other day. I have no doubt the judges who [...]

NEW DELHI -- Bill Gates, Sarah Palin and Warren Buffett (now there's an opening in search of a punch line) each passed through here recently, instructing the Indians on how [...]

Last year, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a veteran of the conservative magazine Commentary, published a book that explained how The New York Times could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The book [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Has anyone actually seen James O'Keefe and Julian Assange together? Are we quite sure that the right-wing prankster who brought down the leadership of National Public Radio and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED According to the list makers at Forbes, I am the 50th most powerful person in the world -- not as powerful as the Pope (No. 5) but more [...]

As a reporter, I covered two of the greatest losers of the last century. The superlative ''greatest'' applies both to the scale of the loss -- Mikhail Gorbachev lost Russia [...]

This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication. Not really, I confessed. [...]

THE PUBLISHER Henry Luce and His American Century By Alan Brinkley Illustrated. 531 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35 Of all the arguments under way these days at the noisy crossroads [...]