While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret… — Nancy Gibbs Debate Copy Share Image
We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured,… — Nancy Gibbs Any Copy Share Image
Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical… — Nancy Gibbs Attention Copy Share Image
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of… — Nancy Gibbs Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and… — Nancy Gibbs Ask Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president… — Nancy Gibbs Johnson President Copy Share Image
High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school… — Nancy Gibbs About Copy Share Image
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor;… — Nancy Gibbs Fear Copy Share Image
There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception… — Nancy Gibbs Become Copy Share Image
Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop… — Nancy Gibbs Big words Copy Share Image
“As a final indignity for the defeated warrior, Vice President Nixon had to preside over the roll call of the Electoral College.… — Nancy Gibbs Electoral college Copy Share Image
Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is… — Nancy Gibbs Belligerence 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 Abstract 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 Accident Copy Share Image
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools… — Nancy Gibbs Better Copy Share Image
I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and… — Nancy Gibbs Always Copy Share Image
I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds,… — Nancy Gibbs Any Copy Share Image
Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do… — Nancy Gibbs About 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… — Nancy Gibbs Athlete Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Avoid Copy Share Image
Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the… — Nancy Gibbs Die young Copy Share Image
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat. — Nancy Gibbs About Copy Share Image
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers. — Nancy Gibbs Above Copy Share Image
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the… — Nancy Gibbs Carved Copy Share Image
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a… — Nancy Gibbs Changes Copy Share Image
“Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first,… — Nancy Gibbs Advice Copy Share Image
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. — Nancy Gibbs After Copy Share Image
We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every… — Nancy Gibbs Almost Copy Share Image
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think… — Nancy Gibbs Ahead Copy Share Image
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and… — Nancy Gibbs Composition 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… — Nancy Gibbs Any 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 Any Copy Share Image
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. — Nancy Gibbs Being Copy Share Image
New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where… — Nancy Gibbs Able Copy Share Image
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. — Nancy Gibbs Education 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 Adulthood Copy Share Image
The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16… — Nancy Gibbs Asking Copy Share Image
It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years… — Nancy Gibbs About Copy Share Image
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform… — Nancy Gibbs College Copy Share Image
Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city,… — Nancy Gibbs American Copy Share Image
