Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
To see him around children was to catch a glimpse of his gift. Over dinner in our home, my wife and I noticed that Dr. James Dobson had chosen to sit ...
Just a few weeks ago, South Korean scientist Woo-Suk Hwang was at the top of the scientific world -- the focus of global attention. Now, all that has changed. In February 2004, media reports indicated that Dr. Hwang and his colleagues had successful ...
Sometimes, it's the contradictory headlines that tell the story. Last week, USA Today released a prominent article with the headline: "'Brokeback' Rides Into the Mainstream." The same day, The Los Angeles Times featured a story with the headline, "Ca ...
Michael Barone, editor of the Almanac of American Politics, and one of the most level-headed observers of the political scene, offers this as his summary of what the last 25 years have taught us. His essay is published in this week's edition of U.S. ...
I appeared last night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees to talk about the controversy over chosen childlessness as a lifestyle. Anderson Cooper anchored the show from Baghdad while Heidi Collins served as interviewer for the segment on childlessne ...
Alex Johnson of MSNBC takes a look at the controversy over Gregory Paul's article and its aftermath [See my previous articles on this controversy here and here.] In his article, published Thursday, Johnson traces the debate. In short, the controvers ...
Iraqi voters began heading for the polls this morning as the nation's first nationwide election for a non-provisional government began. As The New York Times reports, The elections, which are expected to draw as many as 10 million Iraqis to the polls ...
What is going on in Iran? The country's ultra-Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has set off round after round of world-wide concern with his threatening statements, even as international concern builds over Iran's development of nuclear techno ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey has the distinction of once having been led by none other than Bishop John Shelby Spong, who has managed to push heresy into the twilight zone by suggesting that the church must move even beyond theism. Not ...
Richard Dawkins, the British biologist whose militant atheism is integral to his worldview of scientism, gave an interview to Beliefnet.com while at the World Congress of Secular Humanism. Some choice excerpts: When people say that the idea of God i ...
Guilt, distress, and mental trauma among women who have experienced an abortion are far more common and long-lasting than abortion rights proponents have claimed. Researchers with the Norwegian Council for Mental Health and the University of Oslo eva ...