The death penalty is back in the headlines and back before the Supreme Court. It is the issue that erupts again and again, revealing a basic moral fau...
1. More than an economic problem: The "lost" generation A generation 'lost' in the Job Hunt, Wall Street Journal (Ben Casselman and Marcus Walker) 2. After a "he-cession," we are having a "she-covery" Women outrun men in regaining jobs since ...
Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa... French agape over treatment of jailed IMF chief... 30% unmarried rate is highest in 6 decades, Census says... Study Finds Women Slower to Wed, and Divorce Easing... The words 'I do' stil ...
Remembering John Lenon and The Beatles... The Death of Elizabeth Edwards... A necessary censoring in the House... The Divorce Industrial Process... And Extreme Makeover: Criminal Court Edition ...
If you were determined to consign a population to poverty and any number of social pathologies, how might you do it? If your design is to extend the effects of these pathologies and pains to successive generations, what might be your plan? The answer ...
Marriage on the mind... Divorce on the conscience... Left-behind kids in China... And a generation of nincompoops at home ...
Mark A. Smith, who teaches political science at the University of Washington, pays close attention to what is now commonly called the "culture war" in America. Though the roots of this cultural conflict reach back to the 1960s, the deep divide over s ...
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The announcement that Al and Tipper Gore are separating after forty years of marriage has captured the attention of the American public to a rather surprising degree. After all, divorce is hardly uncommon these days, and the Gores are famously part o ...
The recent announcement of Al and Tipper Gore's separation brought to light the culture's confusion about marriage. Several opinion columns have been written that not only argue away the necessity of staying together long term but also celebrate tho ...
The onslaught of modernity has challenged basic assumptions about marriage that existed merely decades ago. Instead of marriage being the beginning of the permanence of experience between a man and woman, many couples are opting to experience perman ...