(THE CONVERSATION) The best presidents – including figures such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington – are celebrated not only as good leaders, but as good men. They embody not simply political ...

Libertarian philosophy is based upon the non-aggression principle, but a libertarian society also needs institutions to help ...

The vice president took a stab at theology to defend the administration’s rank cruelty. Then a higher authority weighed in.

In his latest book, Peter Beinart calls on American Jews to see the horrors of Gaza and abandon blind Zionism in favor of a justice-driven Jewish identity. Blending biblical critique with political ...

Without a time machine, there is no way to know if this is true, but further, the line of thinking falls into a logical ...

New research questions whether babies have an inborn moral sense. Infants did not consistently prefer moral individuals.

Some dogs do bark a lot, and others only bark when alerting to someone coming into the house. One type of dog, the Basenji, ...

Peter Saarsgard discusses his new film September 5, which examines the journalistic coverage of the harrowing events at the ...

The Spokesman-Review’s Feb. 2 lead article described the deafening silence from congressional Republicans, true of our new U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner, in their response to Donald Trump’s ...

Trust in mass media is half of what it was in the 1970s, in part thanks to a wide range of less obvious ways journalistic ...