1998

The Geeks Have a Word for It

A Ford in Your Future

A young news photographer launched his career in the right place at the right time

Twelve classic holiday movies worth seeing when you can’t sit through It’s a Wonderful Life one more time

The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated Presidents—and why it doesn’t have to

Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with a man who had been there

Connections with childhood, with a way of looking at life, and with a generation that remade our world

From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth

Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.

Reflections on the Rat Pack
Everybody knows what they did. This is what they meant.