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Two stories that received less coverage than they should have during 2013 each raise profound questions about our future.

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How much has the digital world changed the conception of privacy?

Viewed from the American side of the water, the fanfare about the discovery of the bones of the last Plantagenet monarch probably seems a bit quaint.

Here’s my advice for President Barack Obama as he embarks on his second term: Follow the example of one of your heroes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Not the Roosevelt of the first two terms but the Roosevelt of the next two. The Roosevelt who won the war.

Finally saw “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” the other day. Once I stopped worrying about the divergence of even the nonsupernatural timeline from actual history, I had plenty of guilty fun. I also came away wondering at the upsurge of interest in our 16th president these past few years.

As we await the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the rhetoric of the statute’s supporters is growing increasingly heated — almost panicky.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has mercifully completed its three days of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, we can pause for a moment and take stock — not of the statute, but of the justices and our attitude toward them.

If you’ve suspected lately that your family’s mobile-phone bill is driven entirely by your 15-year- old, you are probably right.

You might have missed the news that several courthouse guards are being investigated for accepting autographed baseballs from Roger Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of the modern era, after his mistrial on charges of lying under oath about steroid use.