Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.
He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation to honor their beloved sons.
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Everybody of a certain age remembers where they were during a Moment of National Significance. But do you remember who you were? And how the event changed your life? -
Now that Fright Night is the most popular holiday, it has nowhere to go but down. -
Finding poetry / In the news of the moment / Can be meaningful. -
Hideous furniture and furballs and festive sweaters — homeliness is everywhere. Is ugly the new beautiful?
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It's never too early to think ahead, so here are some dates to keep in mind as you make plans for the millennium.
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There have been more than 60 mass shootings in the U.S. since 1982; in only one instance was the shooter female. Researchers say that may be because men who want to harm people are more likely than women to use lethal weapons, like guns, and are more likely to blame others for their problems. -
More than 60 percent of the Senate and most members of the House of Representatives are millionaires. California Republican Darrell Issa tops the list, with an estimated net worth of more than $355 million. A public policy professor tells Americans how to put more working-class people in Congress. -
Finding poetry / in the news of the moment / can be rewarding. -
In professional baseball, what's known as retaliation — when the pitcher from one team will intentionally throw the ball at a batter from the other team — can be risky business. -
Mark Leibovich, author of a just-published book about the ickiness of Washington, makes a case for why people should care.
