I have always been exhilarated by anything that gives me a chance to touch another time, past or future, even for an instant....
With so many people up in arms about The New York Times’s handling of Senator Tom Cotton’s opinion piece on its op-ed page, it’s time for all of us to be thinking about the mission of opinion sections....
The best-selling author of World War Z and disaster preparedness expert offers advice for how to stay safe from Covid-19 over the next year—and prevent the next virus from wiping out millions....
Every day when I venture out into the streets for my daily quarantine walk, I see mothers heroically juggling their families with their jobs....
"Even after all these years, I find it soul wrenching that so many people, with names known and unknown, perished in the great withering of humanity known as the Shoah."...
On April 2, in the midst of the pandemic, a regional Pakistani court overturned the murder conviction and death sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the man convicted in the 2002 killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl....
My sister was cooking up a batch of our late mother’s recipe for tzimmes Wednesday morning when the pot exploded....
More than a month ago, I was in southern California with the preparedness prophet Max Brooks discussing the coronavirus. “We can’t blow this off!” he warned me. The 40-something author of the bestselling World War Z was carefully tracking the trajectory of the virus on...
Last month, more than 100 members of a white nationalist hate group, Patriot Front, marched on the National Mall here in Washington, DC....
Max Brooks is best known as the author of the novel World War Z. But he also uses apocalyptic stories to teach us how to respond to large-scale crises....