Officially we have to get through Advent first, but the fine Friar Tuck is prepared to help us see this season through. UPDATE: I kid...

Thomas Friedman is right that we should all be rooting for the success of the Saudi Arabian reform movement. He's wrong about why it mi...

Sometimes things don't work out right, and you need guys like this . The US Navy has called off its search for three missing sailors aft...

WASHINGTON — The turkey pardoned by President Donald Trump has had multiple contacts with Russian officials over the past year, Duffel Bl...

A piece at RedState argues that Republicans should abandon their "antiquated" sexual morality in order to forward otherwise promi...

1) A Federal judge rules that the President cannot cut Federal funding to cities that refuse to enforce Federal laws . The argument is that...

This isn't my usual thing, but I ran across it while wandering through the intertubes tonight and thought, "Well, that's intere...

This is episode one of a 36 episode course. The scholar is from Tulane, which is a good school in New Orleans. They draw some good people,...

What do you think -- is it less likely that the International Criminal Court will be able lock up US soldiers for 'war crimes' in A...

Ironically, President Obama's Libya policy has led to the restoration of slave markets , where West Africans can be bought and sold for...

Western democracies are at a strange moment, both here and internationally , in which the existing solutions no longer seem plausible but pe...

A new movie is being made about Robert the Bruce . I guess it's just part of our cultural moment that it's going to 'feature som...

So it's going to be the Shi'a with Russia against the Sunni with the U.S. and Israel?  This is going to be interesting.  If it does...

Cassandra has often raised some objections to the use of the term, but let's roll with it this once . In both my personal and profession...

I had a similar line of thought to Dr. Helen's over the last week, although in the end I rejected the idea that the problem she raises ...

In a wooden hut on stilts, a group of children dressed in white sit on the floor. They sing "I will protect Islam till I die" and ...

US Navy pilots try their hand at skywriting . "WARNING: Some viewers may find the photos in this story offensive." UPDATE: Ter...

Speaking of all of this, Iraq's parliament is under fire for considering "an amendment to the personal status law that would allow ...

When I saw the headline, promising a feminist/rape-culture study of the Al Franken case, I was hoping to see a much-needed, thoughtful refle...