Apologizing for wrongdoing has become so commonplace, writes historian Wilfred M. McClay, that forgiveness is in danger of "being debased into a kind of cheap grace."
The median age of classical music listeners has gone up in the last few years, but then, so has the median age of all Americans.
Why would France waste resources on such an economically and politically marginal issue as banning headscarves in schools?
State governments think it makes sense to consolidate local governing bodies, but at the local level the benefits seem abstract and largely unproven.
Mortgage delinquency rates are bad, but not nearly as bad (yet) as they were during the Great Depression.
David Garrow on the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North.
Self-propelled semi-submersibles--primitive subs that ride low in the water--are a favorite choice for drug movers along the Colombian coast. They may pose a serious threat to American national security.
William Anthony Hay on the decline and fall of the British Empire.
In November 2008, voters in the state of Washington joined neighboring Oregon in passing a "death with dignity" law. The original law, a decade old, has transformed the treatment of the terminally ill.
On the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, a distinguished biographer muses on the counsel the Great Emancipator might offer the new president who so often invokes him.