WASHINGTON --The Tea Party movement is "the largest political movement we have seen in modern times," Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said today. Speaking at the Family Research Council's Values ...

I was driving through up-state New York recently. In Buffalo, the huge people out on the street were sipping from giant plastic cups, while shambling about in loose tracksuits and tops decorated with ...

James Baldwin, the American essayist and novelist, who died in 1987, believed that American popular media blinded white Americans to the violent, oppressive racial reality that lived beside them. The ...

Views on human age need to be revisited. The value of adulthood as a period of certainty has declined for many, which means that this period is being delayed. The processes of personality development ...

The Booker prize winner on why revisiting his books makes him sick, killing off his crime-writing pseudonym, and the new wave of Irish novelists John Banville, 76, is the author of 26 books, including ...