The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

The amount of space TIME used trying to mislead us shows how important the court really is.

What can the UAW do with $50 billion?

What is not acceptable, what is a non-starter, is the notion that we can dispense with the law.

Is there a shortage of conflict in the world today, that we need to dredge up past wrongs?

I stood on the bridge; I stood right there on the bridge looking down at the Rio Grande River, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a Mexican gentleman who had started himself a ferryboat service.

What does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

A chain of progression - one leads to the next, then the next...

How can you take action in a rational way if you won't even take the time to understand the issue you're incensed about?