As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the time is ripe to re-assess America's current energy policies - but within the larger framework of how a new approach on the environment will stave off global warming and...

Slavery is alive and well in the 21st century. This point hit home this past weekend, when I led a group of New York University students through the interactive human trafficking exhibit Journey co-sponsored by Oscar winner Emma Thompson, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the Helen Bamber Foundation.

Barring an eleventh hour intervention by the governor of Virginia, the D.C. sniper John Muhammad will be put to death for his role in the shooting spree that claimed 10 lives and terrorized the nation's capital in 2002.

Tomorrow's execution sets the stage for the story I want to share...

This past week, we were sadly reminded that guns in the hands of the aggrieved or the disturbed can produce horrific consequences.

Just as the nation dealt with the shock of an Army psychiatrist killing 13 and causing injury to another 38 on Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas,...

At 5:01 a.m. (EDT) I was awoken by a text alert from the Associated Press (AP) informing me that President Barack Obama had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Half asleep, I laughed at the AP for making such a gross reporting error. Obama wins the Nobel? Pleassseee!

But within...