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.
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.
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.
In the 38-year war on cancer, improved screening was the single most important change and one of the biggest bargains.
A veteran White House press secretary thinks it is time to blow up the 35-year-old model of having one overexposed spokesperson be ground zero for every question.
New research reveals that spice was not used in medieval times to mask the taste of rancid meat, but rather to infuse good meat with the sweet-sour flavor that was the epitome of the fashionable cooking of the era.