I was adopted at 41

Kitty Genovese had a life, not just a death: "She wasn’t just this murder victim"

West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America

Who is qualified to write about race?

Hillary Clinton's big donor problem isn't going away: Her history of taking Wall Street cash exemplifies all that's wrong in U.S. politics

The long con of military decline: How the right uses the armed forces to lie about America

GOP's poverty proposal: What to expect in the first of Paul Ryan's big policy initiatives

Our Memorial Day collision course with fascism: Donald Trump and the new American militarism

"Game of Thrones" recap: Is power still a shadow on the wall, or does it come from standing in the light?

The dark side of Hollywood: The secret is out — now the alleged abuse of children must be confronted and investigated

"True Love": The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women's literature

Our military justice oxymoron: Why we need to be more honest and realistic about the wars we fight -- and the soldiers we send

Did we blame the wrong villain for the 2008 financial crisis? Perhaps the real culprit is capitalism itself

When "X-Men: Apocalypse" fails its heroes of color, it fails the "X-Men" spirit

Plugged in and stressed out: Technology is killing the work-life balance

The consequences of disposable fashion: The year I quit shopping to help the environment