Skeptical Democrats demand a war tax as Afghanistan's declining security situation raises the financial burden of the U.S. in expanding its commitment there
Bookended by 9/11 and a financial wipeout, the first 10 years of the century will likely go down as the most dispiriting decade Americans have lived through since World War II. Can the next one be better?
A powerful judge has ordered the Executive Branch to stop interfering with his decision to allow a court employee to get health coverage for her wife
Former top Pentagon officials investigating the attack at a Texas Army post have visited the site of the shootings and a military hospital
A federal judge has ordered Connecticut officials to promote 14 firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court
A cool-headed legal debate has replaced the once-passionate calls to oust Gov. Mark Sanford on ethics charges
On the op-ed page of today's NYT, Wellesley economics professor Phillip B. Levine offers some real-world perspective.
Saw a note about a town hall last weekend to rally support to close the Detroit incinerator — and I'm glad to see the fight is still on.
A quiet revolution has changed the status of American women; so what's new now?
Ohio State's E. Gordon Gee and nine other dynamos at the nation's top schools
The contents of the disgraced financier's closets are put up for sale
Near his home, in his car, cigarette in hand, on the 4th of July. FDR was at ease and smiling in one of the most memorable photos taken of him
TIME takes a look at some of the men alleged to have plotted and carried out the 9/11 strikes
Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Airline Bag Fees: As High as the Cost of a Seat?
Obama's Half Brother, a Kenyan American in China
The Princess and the Frog: Big Fun on the Bayou
Sex, Please, We're British: London's Erotica Expo
A Brief History of White House State Dinners
Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies?
Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter
Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid?