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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Traditionally, the three daily meals in America are breakfast, lunch and dinner. But did our forebears eat four times a day instead of three? -
American history repeats itself often enough that we sometimes feel like we are living in an infinite loop. Here is a quiz that explores that notion. -
How certain words related to addictive behavior have shifted over the centuries — in 14 colorful charts.
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When it comes to on-the-spot answers to simple historical and political questions, some people don't have a clue. -
With the success of the Kickstarter campaign for the erstwhile TV show Reading Rainbow, we draw up a short list of other shows worthy of another whirl. -
We asked Google to alert us to Ku Klux Klan activities for a week and our mailbox filled up quickly. -
For 100 years the pen has been mightier than the boredom for crossword puzzle aficionados. -
Finding poetry / In the news of the moment / Can be meaningful. -
Mark Leibovich, author of a just-published book about the ickiness of Washington, makes a case for why people should care. -
George W. Bush opens his presidential library this week in Dallas, where an interactive game gives visitors a taste of presidential decision-making. From one angle, Decision Points Theater is a cool learning tool. From another, it raises the question: Could an American president benefit from crowdsourcing?
