The Sagamore rotary is gone, and the rejoicing is near universal.

Let not your eyes go MEGA ("my eyes glaze over") on me as I recite some eye-popping statistics about the continent of Africa...

The conventional political wisdom shows the November 7 midterm elections producing a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994...

Long before Sigmund Freud wrote about repression and the subconscious, Euripides the fifth-century B.C. Athenian playwright explored the frenzy of the human mind—whether Medea’s homicidal rage, Hippolytus’ smug self-righteousness, or poor Pentheus of his masterpiece Bacchae. ..

When Milton Friedman talks, not everybody listens...

For seven years, Tom Vander Ark has shaped educational giving for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, helping it pour billions of dollars into trying to help America’s high schools and making the foundation the biggest and most widely watched force in education philanthropy...

The statewide election is Tuesday, but Frederick Cugini of Stockton still hasn't made up his mind about Proposition 87, the proposed tax on crude oil pumped from California wells...