I’ll admit it. When I heard Mikhail Baryshnikov would be Northwestern’s 2013 commencement speaker, my mind immediately went to “Sex and the City.” But years before he broke Carrie Bradshaw’s...

There are many issues that divide Americans along ideological lines (abortion, gay rights and taxes, to name a few). But there are two divisive issues that share a lot of common ground, especially here...

“Never has a sporting event been less important,” exclaimed Christine Brennan, a USA Today sports writer, writing to persuade Mayor Michael Bloomberg and marathon director Mary Wittenberg to cancel...