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(TNS) At about the time you’re reading this column, I may be holding the first or second class meeting for the courses that I teach at my college. The...

A familiar battle is brewing in New Jersey, where state law requires the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public school classrooms. An ...

Here’s a local story with national implications: With an average wind speed of around 12 mph, the city where I live isn’t the windiest place in the co...

When my students use their cellphones to text during class, they always do so furtively, hands beneath a desk or hidden (they think) behind a strategi...

I like Pope Francis, too, though I won’t be thoroughly smitten by him until he changes his mind on celibacy, contraception and equality for women in t...

Two questions: Why doesn’t our nation have more passenger trains? And does the younger generation’s declining interest in driving imply an opening for...