The Colorado legislature is considering the repeal of laws in the state that criminalize adultery or any act that would "promote sexual immorality." According to...

Watching the American scene in the 1960s, historian Daniel Boorstin, invented the idea of the "pseudo-event." The rise of television and modern mass media had...

French President François Hollande recently announced that he wants French schools to put an end to homework. That is certain to thrill school children in...

Russia is in the grip of an apocalyptic fever. The New York Times reports that Russians across the nation's nine time zones are in the...

TODAY 1. The Supreme Court and Same-Sex Marriage -- A Decision Not to Decide is Still a Decision. 2. First Same-Sex Marriage in West Point's...

TODAY: Another Decision Day at the Supreme Court -- Marriage on the Line / Does the Fiscal Cliff Really Matter? / The Gender Police Hit...

TODAY: The Digital Divide -- Where the Young People Are / Filtering the Flood in the Digital Age / Are Hindus and Muslims Better at...

TODAY: The Perils of Powerball --The Losing Game of the Lottery / The Deadly Danger of a New Prenatal Test / Abortions Fall by Five...

TODAY: What the Christmas Buying Season Says About Us / The Perils of State Sponsored Religious Education / Atheist Group Gets Major Funding at a...

TODAY: Autocracy in Egypt as Morsi Launches an Islamist Coup / The Real Aims of Hamas / India Executes a Terrorist / An Oklahoma Judge...

TODAY: The Church of England turns down women bishops / San Francisco turns down public nudity . . . partially, maybe / Teenagers disconnected --...

TODAY: Should Israel put its trust in an Iron Dome? / A day of decision for Anglicans -- Women Bishops? / Hindu congresswomen to take...

TODAY: Conflict between Hamas and Israel intensifies / Monarchy out of step in the modern world / Mail order ordination in a secular age /...

TODAY: Violence in the Middle East and the future of Israel / A moral crisis in the military? / Why is adultery still a crime?...

TODAY: Social engineering in Sweden means toddlers can't say "him" and "her" / France debates same-sex marriage, eliminates "mother" and "father" / Turkey's Islamist turn,...

TODAY: Has America made a great moral shift?  / How democracies decide divisive questions. / Was Gen. Petraeus a victim of "Sexual McCarthyism?" / When...

TODAY: Adultery in the digital age, worldview and demographics strike again, teenagers ready to vote, religious liberty undermined, and a new reason to elope. I...

TODAY: So, adultery does matter, a new law "vexes" the porn industry, Norway's mass murderer complains of "inhumane" treatment, and Germany decides to subsidize moms...

TODAY: A new Archbishop of Canterbury, Jared Loughner sentenced to life in prison, Mormonism after the election, can the law make us decent? I discuss...

TODAY: A revealing (and troubling) portrait of America in the 2012 election data, Obama's "rainbow coalition," the conservative gender gap, same-sex marriage, assisted suicide, and...

History has been made and the issues are becoming clear. The 2012 U.S. election is over, and President Barack Obama has won a second term...

It's Election Day in America, and that fact alone presents us with a full range of issues to discuss in today's edition of The Briefing:...

TODAY: Human nature revealed by a storm, ill-timed climate arguments, U.S. birthrate at all-time low, 40% of all U.S. babies born to single mothers, ex-gay...

TODAY: The human dimension of Hurricane Sandy, leadership lessons from Sandy, young millennials turn into economic conservatives, the French government decides to pay for all...

TODAY: Lessons from the weather and the "adultification" of Halloween. Two huge issues frame our thoughts this Monday -- Hurricane Sandy and the celebration of...

TODAY: Also on the ballot in November, the legalization of marijuana (Oregon, Washington, Colorado) and the expansion of gambling (Maryland). The precedent is set for...