If you think you can pull together a 10-day summer jazz festival featuring a collection of international megastars—from scratch, in only eight months—you’re [...]

I’m staring at eight pit bulls. They’re all in a row and stacked on top of each other, tucked inside those plastic dog [...]

Nearly every agreement—credit card applications, rental agreements, e-mail account sign-ups—has a privacy statement that requires approval. The U.S. government has a privacy agreement, [...]

Since 9/11, President Bush and his administration have told us again and again that the terrorists who seek to destroy our country hate [...]

The Bush administration has repeatedly insisted that it doesn’t condone torture. Yet, following 9/11, the president’s legal weasels drafted a secret memo that [...]

When John Roberts was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2005, pro-choice women—and men, I might add—everywhere held their breath. When Samuel Alito [...]

From the days following the Civil War when former slaves first got the right to vote—but didn’t really get the right to vote—the [...]

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York) recently put forth a bill that would require both men and women, ages 18 to 42, to serve [...]

We look back through more than 50 years of struggle to a time when our racial discrimination lived in the sunlight, without shame. [...]