Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.