Get ready for the next Roe v. Wade -- only this time the Supreme Court decision that threatens to split the country isn't about abortion; it's about "birthright citizenship." Trump v. Barbara is before the Court this week, and with it comes the very question of who is an American. On his ...

There are few things in life more terrifying than a cancer diagnosis, as any victim of this horrible disease will tell you. So let's kill cancer before it kills us. This crusade could be similar in size and scope to our national commitments to developing a polio vaccine in the 1950s and ...

For a brief window this coming week, Passover and Holy Week, the sacred observances of Jews and Christians, respectively, will overlap. Jews around the world will gather this Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the Seder, which recounts the Exodus from Egypt and God's redemptive hand in ...

Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Of course, what was an expression of optimism for the moral reformer King was more in the nature of a victory spike of the football for ...

Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question -- independent of the military merits -- that Congress must answer: How will it be paid for? The Pentagon has requested $200 billion to fund the campaign. While circumstances could change the price tag, interest payments on ...

This week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that hinges on the meaning of Election Day -- and it's got Democrats sweating. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots received long after Election Day to be ...