Last month, England became the latest government – and last among members of the UK – to pass a policy to combat the recent rise in the use of disposable plastic shopping bags, in its case a five-pence charge for each one.

While English newspapers warned th...

Upon entering a classroom or office for the first time, I frequently take more than a few seconds to place my book bag on the floor. I do this to give the occupants of the room the opportunity to brush aside all assumptions they may have made before meeting me, their professor or...

In responding to the attacks on multiple sites in Paris, French President François Hollande announced that Da’ish had declared war on France and promised retaliation....

Why Paris? I am struggling for answers after cold-blooded mass killers struck the French capital for the second time in a year.

For a few months I lived next door to the Le Carillon bar in the Rue Bichat. I wandered home along the canal, enjoying the lively chatter at the tables...

Police departments, like everyone else, would like to be more effective while spending less. Given the tremendous attention to big data in recent years, and the value it has provided in fields ranging from astronomy to medicine, it should be no surprise that police departments are using...

The student protests at the University of Missouri and on other campuses across the country have brought greater attention to the educational plight of black students.

The protests have exposed how experiences of black students in predominantly white campus environments are...

Iowa is a small state in the rural Midwest that is far off the beaten track from the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.

But for the next 80 days, Iowa sits at the epicenter of the American political landscape.

On February 1, Iowa holds its famous caucuses, the...

The media coverage of the terrorist atrocities of Friday November 13 in Paris would seem to promote an almost mythical image of the Islamic State (ISIS). What humanity needs, however, is to demystify ISIS as a criminal organization. And that need is particularly important in my community – the Muslim...

The Islamic State’s (ISIS) horrendous terror attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13, preceded by a retaliatory bomb attack – also attributed to ISIS – last week on a Russian passenger aircraft in the Sinai Peninsula has finally brought together the opposing Western and regional powers in the Syrian conflict.

The Paris...

When in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo attacks last January, I wrote a column suggesting that we all had to demonstrate a new toughness.

At that time, I thought the scale of ISIS' attacks on Western targets was contained by its avowed doctrine of territorial...