Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?