Jonathan Zimmerman

So New York Mayor Bill de Blasio needs to warn his son to be wary of police officers. And his remarks on race and the police make him res ...

“Merry Christmas . . . and Happy Hanukkah.” Wherever I go this time of year—the subways, the streets, ...

A few years ago Walmart stopped selling candy cigarettes, which had led generations of American youngsters into a ve ...

A hundred years ago, men who made lewd comments to female passersby were known as “mashers.” In 1913, an Omaha judge drew ...

President Obama has played over 180 rounds of golf since he came to the White House. But only once has he asked a Democratic member of th ...

Last week, I was playing tennis when I overheard a discussion on an adjacent court about the Ebola crisis. “We should just k ...

For the past 30 years, I’ve been urging my students to put themselves in the shoes of people who lived in the past. So why do we ma ...

For the past 20 years, I’ve been taking the train to the Market East Station. So do lots of other people here at WHYY, which is loc ...

In 1893, Theodore Roosevelt published an article in defense of college football. As player injuries mounted, some critics had called for ...

When I was a college newspaper editor, in the early 1980s, I ran a series of stories about a student who had been sexually abu ...

Did Joseph Wood suffer when he was executed in Arizona last month? Some witnesses reported that Wood gasped over 600 times during ...

On August 28, 1964, African-Americans began three nights of rioting in Philadelphia. It was exactly a year to the day after Ma ...