Jacqui Shine

When it premiered on CBS in 1957, Perry Mason represented the birth of the television courtroom procedural. For decades, Mason, a criminal defense attorney who almost always emerged from the court victorious, was America’s most loved lawyer. The character has been cited in more than 250 judicial opinions. When Huey P. Newton was charged with murder in 1968, a Black Panther lieutenant reportedly asked a potential attorney, “Are you as good as Perry Mason?”
Perry Mason is in the DNA of nearly e...

We drove from Milwaukee, Wis., to Kansas City, Mo., stopping along the way to talk to people about civic duty, national pride and the symbols often used as stand-ins for Americanness.

Americans care about being nice. How do we disagree with our neighbors about guns?

An oral history of the show's legendary episode about animal trafficking.

Fifty years in the life of Tom Gallagher, diplomat, advocate, and pioneer.

A quiet place for experiencing the grief of solitude.

So gay! So girly! The history of the Styles section of the New York ‘Times’—and the real New Journalism.

He was was a self-made, blue-collar millionaire in Reagan’s America. But when Percy Ross decided to give away his fortune, he made things simple: all you had to do was ask for it.

In the middle of the past century, a gentle crew of puppets united the TV watchers of America.

It was the marriage of a Schermerhorn to an Astor that changed everything.

Everything you didn't even know you wanted to know.

My mother, her history, and ours.

Recaps of the CBS reboot of Murphy Brown, Fall 2018.

An interview with Briallen Hopper, the author of “Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions” (Bloomsbury, 2019)