Offline Diary

Why incarceration should be just one of many strategies helping neighborhoods that produce bumper crops of crooks.

Because of its message, the documentary "Bag It" required filmmakers to say both "Do what I do" and "Do what I show." A shrink-wrapped DVD was out of the question.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going — even if their activity is counterproductive or just for show.

To paraphrase Stalin, one dead body is a fact; a million dead bodies are a point of contention.

Amid severe economic gloom, some top executives take a pay cut, but it's unclear how widely the salary correction will spread.

Can government incentives bring something besides fast food to South L.A.?

Coffee can be good for you. But what about monkey spit?

The EPA acknowledges, finally, that climate change will have public-health implications, increasing the incidence of heart disease, allergies, asthma, tropical diseases and ... kidney stones.

Studies show the over-50 demographic needs AIDS education.

Offline Diary: An old way of turning sunlight into electricity reinvents itself in California.

Offline Diary: Where we look beyond some of the stories originally published on Miller-McCune.com.