As America grapples with sexual assault on college campuses, the letter that a 23-year-old victim read to her attacker in court last week should be required reading. "Emily Doe" delivered her victim impact statement, a searing 12-page letter, at Thursday's sentencing of ...
Donald Trump's claim that he couldn't get fair treatment from Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel because the judge's Mexican heritage is in conflict with Trump's comments on the campaign trail is absurd on its face. Trump originally claimed of the judge that "he's a Mexican," which is ...
New Hampshire policymakers want to have it both ways when it comes to higher education. Out of one side of their mouths, they say they want a system that lines up with the needs of business and industry in the state. But they also say - through their actions - that they're fine with having ...
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, there were 33 shootings in the city of Chicago this past weekend. That's actually an improvement over the previous weekend - the Memorial Day holiday weekend - when there were 64 shootings, seven of them fatal, The New York Times reported. Yet somehow that ...
If an enemy threatened the United States with mass casualties possible, Americans would be willing to spend the money and make the sacrifices necessary to confront it. Well, the country faces such an enemy. Recently came the news that a patient in the United States carried bacteria resistant ...
Leonard Bernstein, the great composer who gave the world "West Side Story" and knew a thing or two about culture, once called Elvis Presley the greatest cultural force of the 20th century. In light of the passing of Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight who died on Friday at ...