Over a decade ago, the French government effectively tackled the controversial issue of granting legal status and benefits to same-sex partnerships by creating an entirely different kind and category of civil union, one that obviates the terms "marriage" and "same-sex" from the scheme altogether -- and the political ideologies that...

This past March, Barack Obama delivered an economic address at the Cooper Union in New York City, where he was introduced by none other than the Democrat- turned- Republican- turned- independent mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. The junior senator from Illinois and the billionaire businessman-turned-philanthropist mayor had not shared...