That's the English translation of the name of the popular French television program that inspired " Farmer Wants a Wife ," whi...

A story in today's New York Times tells of the retirement of Ernie Chambers from the Nebraska State legislature -- after 40 years. De...

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday that the state of Indiana can require voters to show government-issued photo identification at the p...

The New York Times has given Louise Erdrich's new book, "The Plague of Doves" a stunning review . Like much of her earlier w...

A story on NPR this afternoon told of Alice Cousins, a New Orleans resident who has not been able to receive federal aid to repair her home...

I’ve been thinking some about the shortcomings associated with analyzing along a rural/urban axis. For one thing, it doesn’t accommodate r...

Read the Associated Press story, as picked up in the Sacramento Bee , here . The regions most affected are the deep South and Appalachia, w...

This piece by Marie Wilson in the Star Tribune last week, promoted on The White House Project website, talks of the value women bring to p...

A story on NPR this morning reported that, in the recent housing slump, houses in the suburbs and exurbs have fared worst in terms of loss ...

I heard a story on NPR yesterday about the rural-urban divide in China and how the burgeoning urban middle class are increasingly drawn to r...

This poignant story on the eve of the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre is a reminder of the poor conditions in which so many...