Wading afresh into the legal thicket of racial preferences, the Supreme Court held Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., suffered discrimination when the city voided a promotion exam...
The Warren County School Board was in an admittedly touchy spot about choosing a name for the county's new middle school. But in opting to call the renovated building "Warren County Middle School" the board dodged an important issue for the county: How will it finally acknowledge and offer some form of reckoning for its role in the fight over school integration?
The protests and clashes continue in Iran although their scope and significance are shrouded by the government's determined efforts to restrict coverage of the mayhem.
The deadly, horrid collision of two Metro subway cars on Monday hit home not only because of the TV coverage that blanketed the area but also because many of us have ridden the D.C. subway system.
A challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was widely expected to be the most important ruling of the Supreme Court's term, but the justices instead sidestepped the question of its constitutionality.
While President Obama decries the "wild risk-taking" and "lack of oversight" that precipitated the financial meltdown and its severe economic consequences, his remedy is more hodge-podge than systemic reform.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched silently through the streets of Tehran on Monday in the largest antigovernment demonstration since the Islamic revolution deposed the shah in 1979.
Although he was the first Democrat to enter the 2009 governor's race and had come within an eyelash of winning election as attorney general four years ago, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds was quickly overshadowed by his flashier, better financed rivals.
