Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.