There is much about the University of California today of concern. California state support for education has been slashed to the bone. Official state contribution to covering the cost of educating UC students has dropped by 60 percent since 1990 and student-related contributions now total 50 percent. The overall...

Social sacrifice seems the sentiment of the season.

Writing in The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan celebrates having "a political party being honest about what it takes to avoid falling off a fiscal cliff. It means sacrifice."

In a Facebook posting at the time of the Wisconsin...

Recent political events have finally birthed a new political player, The Republicant Party, the one formerly known as the "The Party." The new party is hereby announcing itself, with this hot-off-the social media party platform.

• Presidential candidates from states formerly or currently owned by foreign countries need to provide...

Many thought that Barack Obama's election to the presidency would signal that racism was now largely left to America's past. The Shirley Sherrod case makes palpably evident, however, a profound shift that has materialized in the politics of race in America since the 1980s.

Conservatives, overwhelmingly white, have...