High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image