It's hard to imagine what it must have been like to be bound to the land and having to work from "can't see 'til can't see" every day of the year.

Natural selection only cares how many children you have and whether they have children of their own.

Being stupid, and indeed even being un-American, is not unconstitutional.

This series explores the question of what modern women want because although a woman's wants are more complicated than a man's, women generally get what they want over time.

The real lesson of Eliot Spitzer's downfall.

It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.

It is far, far better to have a sane Democratic party.

There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.

Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to choose to be an idiot.

If a politician is listening to a "special interest group," and is doing what they request, does that mean that he's their "captive"? Or, rather, does it mean that he is performing his Constitutional duty of listening to the grievances of a group of hi...