Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.