Jails and prisons are there for a reason: to keep the public safe, to deter crime, bring a sense of justice and responsibility, and, hopefully, reform offenders.

The red, white and blue Google Doodle on the Fourth of July didn’t honor a traditional American patriot.

“Citizen soldiers” in the National Guard and ready Reserve are critical to our security.

Public schools should try to serve every student, but everyone knows that’s not always possible.

The unconscionable discrimination perpetuated by the Boy Scouts of America has a face.

There was a time when many people could be outraged to learn that a university would arrange under-the-table payments to its football players. That behavior surfaced at Southern Methodist University in 1986, and the NCAA responded with harsh sanctions against the school, a chronic offender: The NCAA banned SMU from playing football for an entire season and canceled its home games the following year — what became known as the “death penalty.”

Having already received more than 600 comments from the public about the wording of the same-sex marriage ballot question, Secretary of State Charlie Summers probably isn’t looking for more ideas.

Can we blame the scorching weather on climate change? Not really. Or at least not yet.