Opinion: Will the Tucson Massacre Change Anything?
Nothing. Nothing at all. That's the likely -- no, the certain -- outcome of the national conversation that continues days after the slaughter in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and 13, including...
Opinion: 2010 -- The Year the Courts Stood Up for Gay Rights
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"Activism" is a reviled word in certain judicial and political circles, and yet it is "judicial activism" that has struck down many of this country's injustices when presidents and legislatures were...
Opinion: How About a Nobel Prize for Assange?
(Dec. 10) -- "[T]he Nobel Committee has chosen someone who has been an eloquent and courageous spokesman for the advance of universal values through peaceful and nonviolent means, including his...
Breakthroughs in AIDS Epidemic Are Not a Silver Bullet
(Nov. 24) -- It's been a good week for the global fight against AIDS, with the pope flip-flopping on years of church edict by approving the use of condoms, the emergence of a new drug that...
Iranian Lawmakers Move to Impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(Nov. 23) -- Iran's parliament moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this weekend but was thwarted by orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an Ahmadinejad supporter, The Wall...
Taliban Impostor Is the Latest in String of Afghan War Missteps
(Nov. 23) -- It would be a good joke were there anything funny about it. Nearly 10 years into the United States' war in Afghanistan, the Afghan government agreed to hold peace talks with the enemy...
Influential Climate Change Skeptic Accused of Plagiarism
(Nov. 23) -- In 2005, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, who at the time headed the House energy committee, turned to George Mason University statistician Edward Wegman to refute the work of Penn State...
If Iverson Can't Win in Turkey, Will He Ever Get Back to the NBA?
(Nov. 22) -- When former NBA No. 1 draft pick and 11-time All-Star Allen Iverson signed with a Turkish basketball club, he portrayed the move as "a chance to get back on track with my basketball...
Contrary to Popular Belief, Sarah Palin Isn't Mama Grizzly's Best Friend
(Nov. 22) -- Dogged Sarah Palin critic Andrew Sullivan recently unpacked the ex-Alaska governor's record on bears and found it doesn't mesh with the warmth she professes for them on her TLC reality...
Phone Records Link Hezbollah to Rafik Hariri Assassination
(Nov. 22) -- The Canadian Broadcast Corp. has conducted an investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and concludes that phone records implicate...
Report Says 92 Percent of Afghan Men Have Never Heard of 9/11 Attacks
(Nov. 19) -- It's been nearly a decade since the United States invaded Afghanistan in response to 9/11, President Barack Obama has said U.S. troops will remain there for at least another four years,...
Marie Antoinette to Lord Young: Aristocratic Gaffes Through the Ages
(Nov. 19) -- It comes as little shock that Britain's Lord Young of Graffham lacks the common touch. For starters, there's the title, of course. And there's also his multimillions in the bank, which...
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