BY SUSAN ESTRICH Charlie Sheen is starting a new charity, and his new charity’s first priority is to raise money for the Giants fan who was beaten up at Dodger Stadium. Victims of violence, of all things. You’d think he’d pick something safe like the environment or homelessness, something that wasn’t quite so on the […]

BY JOE CONASON The aging of the baby boom generation has not improved its reputation. Having brought immense positive change to this country, the postwar population wave is frequently castigated as a self-seeking and even selfish cohort by members of the generations that have followed, who worry that those nearing retirement will cost too much […]

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER If the Legislature is not too busy with the affairs of state they might well take time to resolve that April...

BY SHARON MARTIN You can call the United States a democratic republic if you choose, but as an old English teacher who excels in vocabulary,...

BY FROMA HARROP Monster winds recently ravaged the South, leaving behind all varieties of loss – human and material. The photos often centered on the exposed, tangled root systems of giant trees to illustrate nature on the rampage. Raleigh, NC, the “City of Oaks,” lost many of its famous trees in the siege. Hundred-year-old oaks […]