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My neighborhood is natural habitat for beggars and panhandlers. The freeway is only a few blocks away, and its overpasses often harbor bedraggled men ...

These days in America you can do all sorts of things legally, if you don’t mind leaving home. For example, if you want to cavort with prostitutes, we ...

Consider these two current national trends: the exploding cost of going to college and the widening American wealth and income gap. Now consider the p...

Some ideas are so good that their appeal is immediately compelling. For example, when my classmates and I encountered the intellectual demands of elem...

If one were looking for an occasion to convene fellow protestors, to make signs and placards, to post picket lines, and to compose protest chants, man...

Please indulge my colloquial use of the term “crazy” for the purposes of this column. I mean no disrespect to people who suffer from mental disorders....

The commentary evoked by the recent prisoner swap — five terrorists in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl — calls for context. The trade was an unsavory ...

The first six-week summer session is underway at the college where I work, and my class is off to a splendid start. The subject is writing, which is h...

This would be easy to overstate, but in comparison with much of the world, our country does a decent job of administering justice in a measured, equit...