Don’t cry for Chris Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wants an apology. He wants it from all in the media who dared to raise questions about the ethics of his administration and to wonder...
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How to grow a jihadist
The last leg on the road to jihad began with a day of ditching school. Instead of heading to the mall as many truants would, three teenage girls from the...
For sports teams, there is life after dropping offensive mascots
Daniel M. Snyder, the beleaguered owner of Washington's National Football League franchise, had a setback this week when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deemed the team's name trademark "disparaging"...
Mental illness and guns have created a national epidemic
Before day's end, 86 Americans who were alive yesterday will be dead from gun violence. One of us dies from a bullet every 17 minutes. That statistic lends a certain...
Are Hispanics in danger of becoming white?
To all those who complain that Hispanics are unwilling to assimilate, listen up. Research shows that not only do they embrace American culture, but many also buy into the convoluted...
Time to get serious about sexual assault on campuses
If there were a medal of valor for members of Congress, Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand would deserve it for their success in reforming the U.S. military. Thanks largely...
What we can do for the kidnapped Nigerian girls
The Nigerian schoolgirls will never receive the global hero status of Malala. There are too many of them. They are nameless and faceless, with at least 270 missing, not counting...
Botched execution should be death knell of capital punishment
As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the least bit messy, most of us would prefer to hide. Oklahoma began lethal...
Home from war, our soldiers continue to die
March ended with this uplifting news: For the first time in seven years, no U.S. soldiers died that month in combat. Not one. It's a relieving statistic, suggesting that the...
Better gun laws needed to protect the mentally ill — and the rest of us
The federal government believed Colby Sue Weathers was a paranoid schizophrenic. It had information that she was delusional and suicidal, unable to work and therefore eligible for Medicaid and disability...