In this week's Country Update lead story, songwriters break down deceit in their lyrics.

“The bigger the brain, the larger the capacity to lie.” –Murali Doraiswamy, MD From seemingly small white lies to full-blown criminal confabulations, lying permeates human behavior. For example, most ...

Review of The Devil Wins: A History of Lying From the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment. By Dallas G. Denery II. Princeton University Press. 331 pp. $29.95 In the early fifth century, Augustine of ...