What do John Jay, Edmund Randolph, Levi Lincoln Sr., Daniel Webster and Frederick T. Frelinghuysen have in common?

The announcement that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a child is wonderful news and a boost to the monarchy.

When a person trapped in a mental health crisis threatens to hurt himself or someone else, a police officer is the last line of defense.

The civil war in Syria between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and opponents representing a variety of political, ethnic and religious affiliations (some democratic and some not), may be taking a turn that greatly raises its international impact.

Everyone who wondered how Gov. Paul LePage would work with a Democratic-controlled Legislature got an early answer this week: He’s not.

Qualification and preparation standards for entering and remaining in the teaching profession have long been under fire from both inside and outside the profession.   Programs have been criticized for allowing too many unqualified candidates to enter professional training programs, and then permitting them to graduate without meeting not just standards of excellence, but falling […]

How much stuff can a beachgoer do if a beachgoer wants to do stuff on a beach?

It’s exciting news that SpaceX, the private company that just sent a highly successful spaceship to dock with the International Space Station, wants to put a human on Mars in a dozen years.

Popular notions of the U.S. Senate filibuster, the practice of talking bills to death or delaying their passage, tend to come from film, such as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” or from legendary past examples.

It would be wrenching for the country to be faced with another showdown over the federal debt ceiling. But the solution should not be, as Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner recently suggested, to dispense with the debt ceiling because it is an inconvenient impediment to ratcheting up the national debt.