Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy.

NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

Inside the newsroom, her schoolteacherlike way of elongating words and drawing out the last word of each sentence is a subject of endless conversation and expert mimicry.

NEWYORKER: Changing Times

Which tactics work better will be the subject of a conversation between Mr Putin and Mr Medvedev when they decide, probably next summer, which of them will become Russia's next president.

ECONOMIST: The state of Russia

President, congressmen, lobbyists, lawyers: all are subject to rules on how you can raise political funds, what kinds of conversation might be subject to subpoena, what constitutes a conflict of interest.

ECONOMIST: Vernon Jordan, gliding through

Work-Life Balance for men is a relatively new subject, whereas for women it seems like it was always part of the conversation.

FORBES: Things Men Don't Understand, Part 1: Clothes, Joan Didion

My views on the subject were strengthened today after a long conversation today with Simon Crosby, the CTO of the data center and cloud division at Citrix Systems (CTXS).

FORBES: In Corporate IT, The Cloud Changes Everything

This helped smooth a telephone conversation between the two men on December 15th, steering it away from the touchy subject of Canada's apparent exclusion from the list of 63 allies allowed to bid on primary reconstruction contracts.

ECONOMIST: Canada's new government