Incendiary: The Willingham Case has become an essential part of the canon of journalism devoted to the trial and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. For those who advocate against the death penalty, it depicts their nightmare realized -- a defendant put to death for a crime he could not have possibly committed. And for those of us who follow and report on the 2012 election-year pageant, the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry played a significant role in the outcome of the investigation into the Willingham case makes it an issue worth exploring, as Perry's candidacy has dragged the issue of capital punishment into the GOP debates.
Wall Street has long been the home of the biggest threat to American Democracy. Now it has become home to what may be our best hope for rescuing it.
Most Americans can surely agree that Congress, as much as possible, should be unconstrained by incentives that compel it to behave differently than would a representative sample of Americans, coming together to try to do what's best for our country.
When charged with promoting "class warfare," Obama recently answered it was "just math." But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality. Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.
Apparently condescending cockiness like Christie's is the new litmus test for leadership. Yet, his whole shtick leaves me cold. Just because a leader can curse is not a reason to vote for him. And I'm not the only woman who feels this way.
When Bernie Sanders leaked confidential data last month that dramatically illustrated how speculators were dominating the oil futures market during the 2008 spike in oil prices, many news outlets jumped on the story in the worst possible way.
With the death of al Awalki, the plotting of attacks and the Internet recruitment effort directed toward Western youth by radicals has suffered a significant blow, but the threat by no means has been completely eliminated.
Do you tell yourself that you will get the things done you need to do, and then just end up procrastinating?
As democracy movements worldwide struggle to speak out via the Internet, many here in the U.S. may have overlooked an effort in Congress to undermine this basic freedom.
This is the current state of our immigration system, one that puts profit over decency and greed over sensible policy.
My mom's lasting gift to her daughters, family and friends was making cancer something you could talk about.
The free inquiry and experimentation of our education helps us to think for ourselves, take responsibility for our beliefs and actions, and be better acquainted with our own desires, our own hopes.
A day in fashion week feels like a month of normal time. And day two of Paris Fashion Week was an explosion of colors, sounds and experiences.
Lately, I've been having somewhat of a geek identity crisis. "Why?" you may ask. The incentives are strong to be as big a geek as possible these days. And maybe that's it.
Even while it is still growing, there now are real reasons to believe that Facebook may just become the next web wonder to go down the drain. Believe it or not.
Here we go again. Presidential elections are coming and the role of "the evangelicals" is predictably becoming a hot political story. Ironically, voices on both the right and the left want to falsely describe most evangelicals as zealous members of the ultra-conservative political base.
Legal issues are often the least important concern when negotiating a prenup, however; with prenups, emotions rule the day.
The U.S. has never in its history endured a decline like that of the last 20 years. This time the office has to seek someone serious, and whoever that person is, has to come out of the closet soon.
If you believe that the progressive movement should be independent of Barack Obama and the Democrats, then the decision to work with them should be made strategically. There are times to oppose them, but there are also times to support, encourage, and persuade them.
In the Turkana region of Northern Kenya, there is some sign of hope. But there is also more work to be done.
Every generation is known for something. Will this be the one to deliver an AIDS Free Generation in 2015? It can be.
The Federal Reserve is trying to do their part with more easing of interest rates, but absent more action on the fiscal side, like the measures in the president's jobs plan, I don't expect anyone much to take advantage of lower rates.
If you've been following for a whlie, you know that I went to a pretty racist school. What you don't know is that I actually attended one such bake sale and sure, minorities get discounted goods, but those goods are not created equally.
Unnoticed by the Western press, Muslim women are leading their own revival of Islam, a mix of social activism and Islamic values, nurtured by their own study of the Qur'an, the Sharia and the fiqh.
Today's electric and gas providers operate in a market that is controlled through regulatory authorities. Providers of the future will seek to operate under a market and customer-driven model, rather than our regulatory construct of today.
Often, past events are recalled with rose-tinted glasses that make those past events seem so much better than anything happening in the present. Why is it that the past seems better than the present?