[Samuel Sewall is America’s counterpart to his slightly older contemporary, Samuel Pepys. Both men were essentially humane and humorous pragmatists, honest about themselves and endlessly inquisitive about what makes other people tick. Both started keeping...

The officers (in Slidell) haven’t been home since it happened,

What gets people mad is when these things occur behind closed doors, … These are issues that need to be discussed in public.

SOAR changed the debate. Developers will still develop. But we said they should develop within these lines. And that is what has happened. When I drive through Ventura County, it is still awfully pretty.

The major lifting has been done. Now it’s just a question of holding it together.

Continuing sharp improvements in Venezuela’s external and debt indicators motivated the upgrade. High oil prices have generated large current account surpluses for the country, which in turn has boosted the external assets of the public...

The country’s better growth prospects are largely a result of significant and sustained improvement in domestic security that has, in turn, led to renewed domestic confidence and double-digit growth in private investment.