Saipan is one of many places where the term “copper” has been associated with the word “theft.” The metal has often been stripped from infrastructure (such as electrical cables) in order to be sold into the shady side of scrap markets. But there’s a lot more to copper than crime...

For all of Saipan’s tourism attractions, there’s something the mainland offers that paradise doesn’t: road trips. The longest stretch I ever went without seeing any of the 50 states was about five years. The only thing I really missed was the open highways of the American west....

Of all the loaded words in the dictionary, here’s a candidate for the biggest artillery: “goals.” Everybody says we should have them but nobody seems to agree on how to land them, since if they did agree, everybody would have landed them already and we could stop talking about...

Here’s the word of the day: money. OK, that’s a big topic. So we’ll take a little slice from the small end of it. And here, when it comes to personal finance, there seem to be two competing schools of thought over small expenditures. Me, I don’t have any answers, but I’m always...