A professional skeptic talks about what's real science (evolution, the Big Bang), what's balderdash (ESP, creationism) and what lies between (hypnotism, superstring theory).

Thursday's decision came over bipartisan calls to cancel the vote

Anti-Chamber activists will file bar complaints against the business group's powerful law firm

New York's feisty mayor is the best thing that ever happened to the city's homeless.

The Atlantic's Caitlin Flanagan suggests the actor's troubled family would have been better off if they just screamed at each other under the same roof.

The bill was a key concession to GOP hardliners but now it may not even get a committee vote

As a writing professor, it’s complicated when students find wild success

This is V.C. Andrews, so of course taboos were meant to be broken

The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop.

As a liberal feminist, I thought David Duke was pure evil. But even the Grand Wizard of the KKK has a human side

The Ryan budget is now officially a catastrophe for the GOP. Was this the White House plan all along?

Senate Democrats score on Bush tax cuts; no one likes Mitt Romney; a banker recants; and other top Thursday stories

I feel trapped in wifehood and motherhood and sisterhood; I lash out; I become a monster.

The GOP has taken a hard right turn, and here are some of the politicians shaping its domestic policy