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Why is America a particular breeding ground for cults? The root is in a misapplication of good American ideas.

In protesting their college’s awarding of an honorary degree to President Obama, Notre Dame’s pro-lifers are not being hypocritical. They're being...

Writing in The Times [London], Dr. Finlay argues that this world is simply too imperfect to sustain any ethical system of assisted dying.

One Los Angeles fertility clinic actually advertised testing for “cosmetic selection," which would have tested embyros for desired physical traits...

Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on teens who use cell phones and social networking sites to share explicit photographs. But their use of...

Should the President tell a major corporation to fire its chairman? How you answer that depends on how you answer another question.

The Dutch have become famous worldwide for their liberal approach to assisted suicide and euthanasia. In this case we see something new -- the...

The increasingly secularized character of New England helps to explain why the region is now ground zero for same-sex marriage.

Today marks four years since the highly-publicized death of Terri Schiavo. Her passing remains an ominous marker of the movement of our government...

When's the last time you helped a neighbor in need? Chances are these days, you have plenty of opportunities. And that's not a bad thing.

The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve each announced a major policy initiative for the stated purpose of reversing our economic woes....

Politicians takes these opportunities to twist and distort and confuse and promise things they can never deliver. Once the people have figured that...

Special interests invest in political campaigns as a cost of doing business, expecting that, if they ride the right horse across the finish line,...

Last month, the Academy Awards finally recognized a film filled with redemption and hope. And it may be time for you to watch it.

The pope's "assertion" that condoms spread HIV/AIDS earned a cacophony of condemnation. But Harvard research actually supports the pope's comments.