A dramatic performance of the composer Richard Strauss’ symphonic tone poem, “Death and Transfiguration,” by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center last weekend revealed the

Facebook is awash with bright red this week. A movement launched by the Human Rights Campaign kicked off and has gone truly viral. With two key cases speaking to the issue of gay marriage coming

On the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq this week, I perused my columns from the months leading up to the invasion in March 2003. I decided the best way to summarize that era would be to

The non-stop live media coverage of the Vatican conclave to choose a new Pope is tedious, inappropriate and crying out for a redress of the unholy crimes this archaic institution has perpetuated

The unusually high number of eye-popping scandals swirling around among the page one headlines these days, including the many speculations about why the Pope really quit (I’ll have more to say

The first key to problem solving is to figure out what the problem really is. In our world where appearances all too often disguise underlying realities, real problems can go unrecognized and