Climate change—the biggest thing ever to happen on our planet—strikes me as a test not just of whether the big brain was a good adaptati...

Old Man Gloom was on hiatus for eight years, but, earlier in 2012, the band emerged to play a series of shows, where its previously hinted...

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department...

Members of Generation X are responding in a disturbing way to climate change — with a big, collective shrug of indifference.  Only 22 perc...

Recent events trace a threatening trajectory, sufficiently so that it may be worthwhile to look ahead a few generations to the millennium ...

Last week in Virginia, President Obama made a fairly basic point about succeeding in business: you benefit not just from your own initiat...

Mitt Romney and an array of surrogates are mocking President Obama for remarks he made defending public investments in infrastructure, ...

Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporti...

Late last year, President Obama made a pilgrimage of sorts to the sleepy town of Osawatomie, Kansas, to talk about the economy. He went t...

There are two Affordable Care Acts. There's the legislation passed by Congress in 2009, and then there's the mythical Obamacare – ...

The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act by a 5 to 4 vote. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, responding to the ruling in front...

The number of U.S. citizens who died in terrorist attacks increased by two between 2010 and 2011; overall, a comparable number of American...

stART on the Street is central Massachusetts largest, art, music and performance festival.    The past few years the spring stART festiv...

June 4 marked the 93rd anniversary of the congressional passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. On August 18, 1920 Tennessee be...

On May 29, The New York Times published an extraordinarily in-depth look at the intimate role President Obama has played in authorizing US d...

The central message of Noble Laureate Economist Paul Krugman's new book, End This Depression Now!  is simple: It doesn't have to ...

For many of us, Graceland — rightly or wrongly — planted seeds of the beauty and joyful strength of Africa in our imaginations for the fi...

If 2006’s Tenacious D In 'The Pick Of Destiny' hadn’t bombed at the box office, Jack Black and Kyle Gass would’ve had to invent ...

On clean energy, the material/financial aspects of the conflict are the easiest to understand. Wind, solar, and the rest threaten the financ...

Nearly a quarter of a century after DNA testing was used to prove that a defendant had been falsely convicted of a crime, the American pub...

“If you’re into metal music anywhere in the world, you know about the Palladium,” says Chris Besaw of Break-Thru Music, a joint business v...

Tea Party-backed candidates swept into Washington in 2010 on a wave of opposition to bank bailouts. Now that they’re in Washington, howev...

Two-thirds of the largest 200 U.S. corporations lobbied on at least one tax bill between 2007 and 2010, and here’s why: the majority of th...

Between 2000 and 2007, there were 32,299 UFO sightings in the United States, 352 deaths caused by lightning, but only nine cases of voter ...

The GOP isn’t unique in the art of foot-in-mouth disease, but 2012 is proving a banner year for the party with the pachyderm mascot to w...

The huge difference between the thinking of Republicans and Democrats disappears when it comes to gas prices. Both subscribe to the same d...

House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan's budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past  half-century, would have b...

The debate about rising gasoline prices is generating a lot of fuzzy math. Hence the cloud of murky, misleading or downright inaccurate rh...

Anti-intellectualism is deeply rooted in American evangelicalism, reaching into the classrooms of popular schools, like Cedarville Univers...

In the United States, Republicans lambaste President Obama's stimulus package as a failure and insist on bone-crunching budget-cutti...

Reforming our food system is a Herculean task; one that might intimidate Hercules himself.  Of the 40,000 food items in a typical U.S. groc...

Over the last thirty years, anti-government arguments by conservative pundits and politicians have gained prominence, and the rhetoric thi...

My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat.  What happened? “They lost me,” ...

Despite rising prices at US gas pumps, demand in the US was so low it has become a net exporter of gasoline, unable to consume all that i...

When you claim to fervently believe in the holy words of the Judeo-Christian Bible, and your political philosophy is diametrically oppos...

It’s been two years since hell paid Haiti a visit, but for countless women, terror still stalks the ruins. The scars of the January 2010 e...

That Lawrence Summers, a president emeritus of Harvard, is a consummate distorter of fact and logic is not a revelation. That he and Bill Cl...

Since President Obama became chief executive, the national debt has risen almost $5 trillion. But how much of that was because of policies...

Several points in the recent New York Times story on Apple and why the iPhone jobs are mostly not in America caught my attention, but none...

In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global m...

Faith in Public Life reports that more than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians across the country are calling on two of their “fellow Cat...

No one will confuse it with Maria, Full Of Grace , but like that more accomplished film about moving illegal material across borders, the li...

Gingrich Rides Racially Coded Rhetoric to Surge in South Carolina - Ben Adler Gingrich’s rhetoric -- calling President Obama “the best fo...

A tax break for Walmart means higher taxes for residents, according to assessors in several area communities. Wal-Mart Associates Inc. i...

As I join many in my community in the annual post-feast January slim-down, it occurred to me that this is a fitting moment to reflect on...