And the logic of that chapter, that chapter five in my book, rests on the proposition that women voting is bad for conservatism, and as a conservative, of course, I think that's bad for society.

Unemployment of this magnitude and duration also translates into ugly politics, because fear and anxiety are fertile grounds for demagogues weilding the politics of resentment against immigrants, blacks, the poor, government leaders, business leaders...

White House considers restrictions on mobile devices while driving

A film about Charles Darwin that is being shown throughout the world can't find a U.S. distributor. Why do the pseudo-Christians get their way? Just because they choose stupidity, the ignoramuses do not have the right to dictate what the rest of us see.

A new Plan report, Hard Work, Long Hours and Little Pay, shows that more than 78,000 children in Malawi are working on tobacco farms where they face exploitation, abuse and serious health risks. Some are suffering from the potentially deadly

Les Paul, the guitar virtuoso and inventor who revolutionized music and created rock 'n' roll as surely as Elvis Presley and the Beatles by developing the solid-body electric guitar and multitrack recording, died Thursday at age 94.Known for his lightning

For two centuries, Americans were taught to think war itself an aberration, and "wars" in the plural could only have seemed doubly aberrant. Younger generations of Americans, however, are now being taught to expect no end of war -- and no end of wars.

Thank you very much, John, and thank you, Michelle, and we wont say who was actually twisting her arm. You know, Richard Holbrooke was with her when she fell, as you all know.

As you may have heard, the Common Council of West Bend, Wisconsin voted on April 21 to dismiss four members of the West Bend Library Board's refusal to remove certain LGBT-themed titles from the Young Adult section of the library.

A few years ago it was common to think of the rich as a special breed. We may soon come around to George Orwell's view that the only difference between rich and poor is income: "The average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit"