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My interview with John Kenneth Galbraith began with his asking me a question. Peering down from his 6 feet 8 inches, the 88-year-old Galbraith inquired, “Just how many hours do…

Much has been written about America’s love affair with the automobile. That’s why Nieman Reports is devoting the bulk of this edition to highways. What has been overlooked has been…

They’ve all said it so much that it is a given in the Whitewater coverage. It’s one of those “facts” you don’t even need to check out. The New York…

WASHINGTON—April 24, 1997. Steve Wellington of Mesa, Ariz., tells the Senate Commerce Committee how an 80,000-pound double trailer truck killed his eight-month pregnant wife, Cathy, and seriously injured four of…

0ne of the dominant trends in technological innovation has been engineers’ relentless success in stuffing ever more potatoes into the proverbial ten-pound sack. Bundles of copper cable the size of…

So, you want to be a foreign correspondent. Fat chance. With publishers, editors and the big broadcasters refocusing on domestic news, the opportunities for getting a job as a real,…

I was mooing like a Holstein in the lobby of a Toronto hotel in 1984 when it struck me that there had to be a better way to cover a…

Why Do Newspapers Get So Close to Politicians On the Federal Transportation Bill?

How a City Integrated Art Into Its Infrastructure

Is the Glass One-Quarter Full or Three-Quarters Empty?