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John Edwards has decided to stay in the race even though his wife's cancer has returned. Lots of people criticized him yesterday, but I think he...

On Saint Patrick's Day, many Americans celebrate by attending parades and drinking green beer. But how many of us understand the day's dramatic...

A look at the filme The Lives of Others, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

What difference does a worldview make? Around the world, we are seeing the clash of civilizations in action. In recent days, that clash has given...

Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney ponders a presidential bid.

In Vietnam, the slide down the slippery slope seemed inevitable. But in Iraq, there's time to halt it. Bush can be expected to hold firm in his...

Somalia's Islamists have been swept from power, ousted in a blitzkrieg attack by the Ethiopian military. The nature of the emerging political order...

His greatest feat, leading America out of the traumas of Watergate and Vietnam, has routinely been viewed as an important but hardly towering...

On Saturday, December 2, incoming-Senate majority leader Harry Reid asked Jim Wallis, the liberal religious activist, to give the Democrats'...

You might not expect someone weighing a presidential run in 2008 to spend a dozen hours in a state prison; it's not exactly the best place to go in...

The 2006 election cycle was the third in a row focused almost exclusively on the war on terror and Iraq. But there is reason to think the 2008...

Republicans lost the House and possibly the Senate because of Iraq, corruption, and a record of taking up big issues and then doing nothing on...

You say you somehow missed the story? Well, don't blame yourself. You are not out of touch. The stories have not been written.

Now numbering over 500 million, and probably the fastest growing religious movement in the world, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians are...

Sometimes there are pleasant surprises from the much-maligned Church of England. Last week, its former Archbishop of Canterbury defended Pope...