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A Case of the Mondays

Adam Pitluk shares about the very real and very disturbing underground world of human traf... Read More

Human Cost of Trafficking

Adam Pitluk shares about the very real and very disturbing underground world of human traf... Read More

True Grit

In the sweltering Texas heat, Adam Pitluk spent a grueling day working with the baggage ha... Read More

7 Ain’t Lucky for Me

Just look at this picture. I mean, come on. Sure, it’s been 23 years since number 7 drove... Read More

Honor at the End of the Day

Journalism is not a profession in the way that law is a profession. Or medicine. Or educat... Read More

Earnest Timmy’s Rolling Mother

I looked out over a sea of buzz cuts and ponytails just minutes before my professional deb... Read More

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Good Guy Finished First

It’s hard to be a Cleveland Indians fan. Don’t believe me? Just stick Major League at the... Read More

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To This Place

Should fate and circumstance collide in a most cerebral manner, and should you find yourse... Read More

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Are You Ready for Some Fútbol?

I’d never seen anything like it. Never. Ever. Never ever. And I’d been around. Chaotic, ou... Read More

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Homecoming

One book I keep close to my heart (and close to my fingertips as a reference guide) is Tho... Read More

National Pitluk’s Padre Vacation

I LOVE MY COUSIN RONNIE. We’re a generation apart, as he grew up with my father in Clevela... Read More

Calculated Game of Chance

And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of ol... Read More

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I’ve Looked Around Enough to Know

If you want to succeed in any endeavor, it’s a good idea to look back on said endeavor’s s... Read More

Rock Stars

I’m not going to lie. When Adam asked me to write this issue’s Editor’s Note, I balked. I... Read More

Familiar Vacation

I’m the type of guy who doesn’t do too well with change. I’m still wearing the same clothe... Read More

What’$ in a Name?

About an hour southeast of Dallas lies one of the more picturesque hamlets in all of Texas... Read More

Let Freedom Ring

In the summer of 2006, I took a long, meandering road trip from the bottom of the country... Read More

Amerykánska Powiesc

In one of my first editor’s notes, I made a passing reference to overcoming dyslexia when... Read More

The Secret to My Success

At one time in my career, before I became the host of The Tonight Show , I was on the road... Read More

The Allure of New Orleans

The call came in while Kimberly and I were trying to first calm and then feed our daughter... Read More