“I just follow my own common sense,” a justice of 13 years told reporter William Glaberson of The New York Times, “and to hell with the...

On November 8, 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Higher Education Act (HEA) into law. A key legislative pillar of his Great Society...

While a recent Gallup poll showed that 50 percent of the public prioritizes environmental issues over economic growth, only 24 percent...

Today, Terry McAuliffe is the consummate political power broker: millionaire, fundraiser, influence peddler and now governor. But for one...

This article contains a discussion of sexual assault, which may be triggering for some readers. Imagine a young female-identified student...

Over 8 million people have signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), exceeding the White House’s enrollment goal for...

The permanently emblazoned image of poverty is a toddler in some faraway place, his tattered clothes soiled by the filth in which he...

On April 22, the Supreme Court heard arguments for a case that will decide the future of creative content. The case, American...

Dan Barry’s recent New York Times article “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse” shed light on the deplorable use of segregated workshops, which...

Exaggeration serves no purpose when it comes to the Syrian crisis. From horrifying tales of rebel extremists eating hearts of dead men to...

The good news is that the nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the major global powers have so far delivered quite optimistic...

When “Adam” told the psychiatrist he was a pedophile she told him he was wrong, that he must be mistaken. But Adam knew he was, sexual...

Spoiler alert: Check out what you can do to keep the conversation going here. It’s almost impossible not to be cynical, reading the Times...

I was curious yesterday why CNN and the Wall Street Journal were ostensibly publishing restaurant recommendations when I repeatedly read,...

The podcast Radiolab recently devoted an hour to the 60 words they say became the “the legal foundation for the ‘war on terror.'” The...

Just over a year ago, I sat down after the Boston Marathon bombings and tried to make sense of the day. It was the darkest day in recent...

When Barbara Walters implied that Joe Biden would not run for president if Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy on a recent episode of...

A majority of Americans have now begun to embrace human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. With each report of a new successful...

America needs to find a distraction from the presidential obsession. In Sunday’s New York Times we have an article about Republican...

The idea of religious liberty has enjoyed many roles in American society — throughout our nation’s history it has been the object of...