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.

The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

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