The race is over for Lance Armstrong, but the question remains: What lasting impact will his years of cheating and denying have on the future of cycling and other sports?

Watch the presidential debates and get a heavy dose about what’s wrong with politic discourse in America. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama tried to out-shout each other, ignoring moderators’ directives and plunging onward with accusatory tones, gross distortions, dismissive eye-rolls and a few snotty asides.

The real perversion of the Boy Scouts of America’s so-called perversion files — compiled to blacklist accused sexual predators — is that they did more to protect the reputation of the organization than to safeguard young, vulnerable boys. By quietly pushing volunteer Scout leaders to resign in lieu of reporting accusations of sexual abuse to […]

In an era when governments and families alike are trying to reduce debt, it seems harder to make a case for issuing state bonds.