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There is a military term of art that has deep significance in our fight against ISIS. It captures the idea that there is an identifiable source of ene...

I have the privilege of teaching at a local high school where many of our students are involved in athletics to some degree. Since I recognize the val...

After its hard-hitting account of a University of Virginia student’s alleged gang rape raised questions from other journalists, Rolling Stone magazine...

Go to war and every politician will thank you, and they’ll continue to do so — with monuments and statues, war museums and military cemeteries — long ...

Haltingly, with understandable ambivalence, the American labor movement is morphing into something new. Its most prominent organizing campaigns of rec...

Given the work-related adventures I’ve written about in this column, I’ve had some readers tell me they are going to start calling me Michelina Rowe —...

A friend emailed last week with a question: “You said that you were reserving your (Ferguson) opinion until you read the evidence. What do you say now...

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we...

For a while there, it looked like a great week to suggest body cameras on all police officers to prevent disastrous flare-ups like we’ve seen in Fergu...

ASHINGTON (AP) — After declaring President Barack Obama's new policy on deportations "null and void," House Republicans are ready to fund the federal ...

President Obama simply cannot bring himself to act as if maybe the former Ferguson, Mo. police officer, Darren Wilson, has human rights too. Imagine b...

St. Bonaventure University hosted Faith Night on Wednesday at Doyle Hall Chapel before its home basketball game vs. University at Buffalo. For $15, I ...

Should a fisherman face two decades in prison for discarding a few fish at sea? That question is at the core of a statutory interpretation case the Su...

Today’s amazing communication technologies owe much to some of Albert Einstein’s greatest discoveries. For example, the cameras in cellphones and othe...

The Christmas season seems to start earlier every year. Last month, a neighbor put up twinkling silver lights, and the day after Thanksgiving, we saw ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New sexual assault data on Thursday delivered both good news and bad news for a U.S. military struggling to overcome what officials ...

Those of us who worked long and hard to elect Martha Robertson to Congress in the recent election were disappointed with the outcome, to put it mildly...

ALBANY — In the wake of another subway murder allegedly committed last monthby a violent felon recently released from prison, state Sen.Catharine Youn...