New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where… — Nancy Gibbs 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
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — 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… — Nancy Gibbs Athlete 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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
“As I hung up and walked slowly back to our table,” Nixon recalled, “it dawned on me that I had just participated… — Nancy Gibbs Communication Copy Share Image
Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has… — Nancy Gibbs Contest 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
