News Analysis

Mark Chilton, the newly elected register of deeds in Orange County, NC, campaigned on a promise to defy state law by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Just as the media in the Soviet Union were not allowed to talk about alternatives to one-party rule, the Washington Post apparently can't raise the issue of alternatives to …

In Ohio, where gas drilling is booming and toxic waste abundant, legislators acted modestly to address concerns about public safety.

With events quickly spinning out of control in Ukraine, some policymakers need to tell President Obama that there can be even bigger trouble ahead, if Russia's national security interests …

In the wake of a federal court's recent ruling halting a state criminal investigation into spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and …

While the decision in this case, Brown v. Board of Education, has received the most ink over the last six decades, the stories and people behind the landmark decision …

About 50 percent of the fish we eat are farmed. There is good reason for this as the world's commercial fisheries collapse through overfishing.

What is Operation New Normal? It's a question without an answer, a riddle the US military refuses to solve.

The votes have been cast in India's general elections and predictions are that the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies will form the next government.

Relocating to a country with a lower tax rate is one way giant corporations like Pfizer disregard their fellow Americans.