Following the words of the Broadway musical song, "We'd like to thank you, Herbert Hoover, you made us what we are today," pundits are falling over themselves comparing today's financial distress with the Great Depression that began under that unfortunate president. (Today)

The announcement of Elizabeth Alexander as President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural poet came just as I was heading out the door for the holidays, leaving me without time to round out a profile of this popular poet. (Today)

Check out these three new novels for young readers: Mississippi "Mibs" Beaumont is looking forward to turning 13. (Today)

Let me preface by pointing out a couple of things that make me cringe whenever I see them attached to a review of comics. (01/04/2009)

If Alan Greenspan had studied Anthony Trollope instead of the tenor saxophone, we might not be in the financial mess we're in today. (01/04/2009)