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Here in the first post-American century, sports fans, it’s a brand-new ballgame — and I’m not sure how to watch it. In this opening

    Robert Lipsyte | Root,Root, Root for the Owners...:             Here in the first post-American century, sports fans, it’s a brand-new ballgame — …

Angry, stupid and armed can turn out to be a pretty ridiculous combination.

A fight is brewing in Washington – or, at the least, it ought to be brewing – over whether to put limits on the size of financial entities in …

Baseball is my favorite sport. I grew up with the Boston Red Sox and endured forty years of heartrending frustration until my team finally broke the Curse of the …

Washington - Toward the end of the health care battle, a beleaguered Obama staff member sent me an e-mail that ended with the words: "Sisyphus was a sissy compared …

In the US, 30 percent of youth fail high school every year, and the vast majority come from poor communities and populations of color. We must solve this problem. …

On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a historic speech at Riverside Church in New York City, which has become known as "Beyond Vietnam: A Time …

In a place like upstate New York, north of Albany, where April is more generally known as “mud season,” and the wait for “ice-out” on the big lakes takes …

The deteriorating state of American youth may be the most serious challenge the US faces in the 21st century.