Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s an exploding cigar, of the harmless kind with which Ernest Hemingway pranked a Turkish general, or of the deadly kind with which the CIA planned ...

As fans we’ve grown to expect a downtrodden locker room when things don’t turn out the way the players had hoped, particularly at the end of a season. Sunday in Arizona, the Seahawks beat the ...

For Groucho Marx, the stock market was nothing to laugh at. The mustached wag invested his fortune, a quarter-million dollars, on a tip from a bellhop at the Ritz-Carlton during the height of the ...

Like one of those famous exploding cigars in a Groucho Marx movie, nature imitates life by producing an exploding cigar of its own - a brand new, bright supernova in the "Cigar Galaxy" M82 in the ...

Hey, it’s election season! Think about it: A year from now, we should know who the next president is going to be and … Stop beating your head against the wall. Before we start obsessing over the ...

The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Virginia is poised to become the second state, after California, where Democrats will seek to unravel reforms that ...