I’ve been writing this "Living Single" blog here at Psychology Today since 2008. That’s more than a decade, and in all that time, one of the true joys has been the lively and insightful discussions in ...

When DCist killed its comments section last week, an under-catalogued era of Washington journalism died along with it. In the publication’s early days, “it felt like the site wouldn’t matter without ...

The Washington Post's Web site recently shut down the viewer comments section of one of its weblogs after an article by the Post's ombudsman caused a flood of complaints. The Jack Abramoff scandal is ...

In the half-second before opening a comments section, a voice in my head says, “I don’t think we’re going to like what we’re about to see.” And it’s always right. Still, I regularly scroll to the ...

Now Don Boudreaux and Ross Roberts have just announced that they are indefinitely closing the comments section of Cafe Hayek, with this message “Comments to be Closed.” In both cases, the economics ...