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The ministrations of lawmakers who seem to believe women are chattel roll on, today to the Indiana State legislature.
Children have to be taught to express their opinions respectfully. Unfortunately, it's a lesson some adults never learn. Take Terry Jones, who threatened to burn a Quran last year. A little over a week ago, he, you guessed it, burned a Quran.
The David Sokol case reveals much of what has gone wrong on Wall Street. Employees of publicly traded firms get very confused as to what their responsibilities are to their shareholders, other firms' shareholders, and to society in general.
If Republicans were to succeed in defunding health reform and returning the management of all health programs to the states, we would be at the mercy of state ideologues who apparently know very little about the programs they claim to cut.
Is it too much to ask the FDA and the processed food companies for the same value to be placed on the lives of the American kids in their cost-benefit analyses as has been placed on the lives of kids in the UK?
This fat baby is onto something, and I don't just mean a steel-reinforced Bumbo chair -- embrace your total lack of impulse control, and you will be on the road to fame and fortune.
On the green agenda, China's latest five-year plan has substantial implications -- for China and the world. There is a rebalancing taking shape, and while the brown tap is still on, the green tap is being turned on too.
Urban racial segregation may not be the permanent lot of American society, but if past decades and current policies are any sign, America's most segregated cities will stay that way for more census counts to come.
"Sanctionable" is one of a few English words to have two contrary meanings: legally punishable and ethically approvable. The contradiction appears to translate well into three European languages: German, Italian and Spanish.
Practitioners who study beauty have a responsibility to alter our younger generation's view on what it means to be attractive. To do so, we have to keep physical beauty from being equated with the experience of attractiveness.
The Title IX Complaint documents the high-profile sexual harassment that has taken place at Yale over the last few years. Without actually punishing the harassers, without calling it sexual harassment, Yale allows this culture to persist.
Donald Trump is giving public service a bad image. It's not about flash, it's not about wealth, and it's not about hairstyle. It's about doing something for people and being an advocate for the community you represent.
With the decision to entomb four Fukushima reactors in concrete, Tokyo Electric is moving the disaster into uncharted waters. The heat producing fuel rods cannot be turned off.
The messages sent from the Obama political operation suggesting the health care reform bill's historic significance largely served to underscore that a year after passage, it is not really historic at all.
Tax collectors in the U.S. and in high-tax foreign countries are the direct victims of tax avoidance, but we all suffer from the resulting budget deficits.
My understanding is that the campaign plan for 2012 is still in formation. But one critical element is clear. The campaign will be even more reliant than it was in 2008 on its grass roots ground game. Jim Messina is definitely the man for that job.
The absence of a silver bullet should not prevent us from taking small but important steps to stand with the Iranian people. Here is what President Obama can and should do right now.
Research is the foundation for all medical and public health interventions to promote healthy aging and to find cures for the diseases that affect the baby boomer generation.
The mayor should have apologized big time to the family of the late George Wong, a New York City police officer whose corpse was carted off by the city when the Medical Examiner's office made a mistake.
The appeal against armed violence, by the leader of a superpower who either has just approved or is about to approve the shipment of arms to a rebel force in a civil war, fits the common idea of mendacity.
Americans need to respond to chronic unemployment with sympathy and righteous indignation. And from this moral stance we need to resist the political tsunami that argues that corporate rights trump those of individuals.
Though we might not always have the answer, sometimes all we need to know is that writers much wiser than ourselves have asked themselves the same question.
Republican ire and calls to "take the country back" are confusing because for quite some time now the Right has set the agenda and has defined the parameters of what is politically possible in this country.
Women, here's my recommendation: strike the word "controlling" from your vocabulary. It's loaded, it's gendered and other stuff is hiding underneath it.
Our newest generation of heroes are leaving the toughest part of the world, and returning home to the toughest job market in decades.
