With so much attention focussed these days on the political influence of the Religious Right, it may be hard to remember that its plunge into politics is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Studies remain inclusive about whether the death penalty lowers the homicide rate.
Latin American politics has come to be divided into two Lefts. How they deal with each other will determine the region's future.
Cuba's interventions in Angola and Ethiopia were viewed with alarm in America and disapproval in Moscow, but Castro seems to have acted on his own, and perhaps even effected some positive change.
Roxana Robinson on Anne Barclay Priest, actress and sheep herder
Consumer demands for protection against computer virus and worm attacks threaten to quash the Internet as it now exists.
"Virtual" investments and globalization are just a few of the contemporary wrinkles causing a reconsideration of the concept of property.
Certain forms of dance are in danger of vanishing because their intricacies are known only to a select few.