The meaning of the Statue of Liberty has gotten muddled over the years.

Manny Ramirez returned to the majors this weekend, to the delight of Dodgers fans, following a 50-game suspension. Yet, when the news broke in early May that Los Angeles's star outfielder would be punished for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy, it was another slugger who called a news...

Are the 2009 Washington Nationals the worst team in Major League Baseball history? Going strictly by the book, if the Nats continue to play at their present pace -- is "pace" really the word for it? -- they will lose somewhere around 120 of 162 games, the number lost by the New York Mets in 1962 ,...

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended June 28, 2009. The charts may not be reproduced without permission from Nielsen BookScan. Copyright © 2009 by Nielsen BookScan. (The right-hand column of numbers represents weeks on this list, which premiered in Book World on Jan. 11, 2004. The bestseller...

6 MONDAY 7 P.M. Bill Wasik , a senior editor at Harper's magazine, discusses and signs And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.

Is there anything more democratic than a big-city park on a hot summer afternoon, the smoke from a dozen barbecues commingling into a sweet cloud of garlic and charred flesh, a dozen picnic tables groaning under the weight of iced drinks and pungent salads, children whose parents come from 20...

Thomas Jefferson died so deep in debt that his beloved estate, Monticello, had to be sold to satisfy his creditors. James Madison also left behind mounds of financial obligations. But John Adams, the man Jefferson turned out of the White House in 1801, died rich and debt-free -- despite sharing his...