It is that time of year again. Some years ago, I was invited to speak at the graduation ceremonies of a liberal arts college. Later, many in the audience told me they expected a very political speech. Some of them were relieved; others were ...

My doctor and dear friend Larry calls it "an exciting gateway of genetics, for it is leading to specific therapy to specific subsets of a given disease." Some of the folks writing comments call it a conspiracy by the drug companies and the medical...

On its face, the murder of Americans in Libya, including our ambassador, has absolutely nothing to do with the inappropriate relationship former President Bill Clinton had with a White House intern. But politically, that's another story.

The ...

My daughter was born on Mother's Day, 23 years ago. It was the happiest day of my life -- matched only, almost three years later, by the birth of my son.

I had never felt such love before.

Hooray for Hallmark.

Years passed. My own mother died. ...

The report from the Arlington, Va., Police Department is, on its face, hardly newsworthy:

"SEXUAL BATTERY, 05/05/13, 500 block of S. 23rd Street. On May 5 at 12:35 am, a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and ...

Mary Thom, former editor of Ms. magazine and feminist visionary, died last week in a motorcycle accident.

I met her back in the mid-1970s. She wouldn't have remembered me, but I remember her. At the time, she seemed much older than me. In truth, ...