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The recent elections on the other side of the Atlantic continue to cause concern around the planet and news coverage in the United States is both short on explanation and perspective. That is why I asked Dr. Bill Downs to help sense of it all. Downs serves as Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Georgia State University and is the author of numerous books and articles on contemporary politics in Europe. His most recent book, Political Extremism in Democracies: Combating Intolerance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) examines xenophobia and anti-immigrant parties across the continent.

As expected, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment yesterday stating “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized.”

Polls had always shown the amendment had majority support, and across the country, even the most progressive states — think California — have tended to pass such measures.

Science says no, but court officers not reassured. If real-life technology solved crimes as easily as the methods seen on "CSI" and similar TV shows, there’d be a lot more convictions for criminal offenses in the U.S. "CSI," ... Read on →

Remember Ronny Zamora, the Miami teenager who shot and killed an elderly neighbor in 1977 and then ignited a national debate about television’s influence on behavior when he and his lawyer argued that he had been ... Read on →

As the deep-throated, bone-jarring, creeping rumble of the Sturgis motorcycle rally dimmed with each mile, we rode south toward Nebraska. My wife, Arlette, a native of France, and I, both 55-year-old "boomers", were on a ride ... Read on →

They came screaming out of a dorm window somewhere in 1968 and on the way to some place you had to stop and wonder why someone was playing a fugue. Much less a fugue on a ... Read on →

If you’re around high schools in the spring, you may have come across a Signing Party where the beloved star athlete proudly sits at a table next to a cake and balloons while TV cameras capture ... Read on →

On weekends Brenda Rhodes guides her clients through a 10,000-square-foot warehouse full of tables, beds, sofas, mirrors and more. After picking out exactly what they want, her clients, often families with kids, stand near the loading ... Read on →

Pre-conceived notions are funny. They make a sunny day cloudy. They make the successful Department of Justice prosecution of banksters and fraudulent mortgage brokers, like Lee Farkas, look like a failure because every ... Read on →

Who wants to intervene in the Syrian civil war? Opinion polls on both sides of the Atlantic make it clear that while events in Syria are tragic there is no desire for involvement ... Read on →

The filing period for Democratic and Republican candidates running for the upcoming SC State House and Senate elections closed last week. We will not know the exact election returns until November, but this ... Read on →

"To know that you can't walk down the street at night in your own neighborhood," the councilman said. "That's a terrible shame. That's a terrible feeling. No one should be subjected to that. "This ... Read on →

The Republicans in the Georgia legislature managed to find a "compromise" that would allow them to finally pass a 20 week ban on abortions.  The Senate proposal to exclude "medically futile" pregnancies was ... Read on →

Number of days this week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the 2010 health-insurance ... Read on →

What will it look like to have no federal Women's Health Program in Texas? That's what the state department of Health and Human Services ... Read on →

From the Institute of Southern Studies The U.S. Department of Justice announced late Monday that it would investigate the February deadly shooting of an unarmed ... Read on →

This article was created by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Don’t Be Fooled by Rep. Ryan’s Sleight of Hand A real analysis of Rep. ... Read on →

Georgia faces economic pressure from chronic illness Big people are big business in the United States, where about one in three adults and one in ... Read on →

Oh for the love of Voldemort. Reuters: Internal Komen documents reviewed by Reuters reveal the complicated relationship between the Komen Foundation and the Catholic church, which simultaneously contributes to ... Read on →

What does it say about the state of our society when so many state legislators seem to make the passage of laws de-humanizing women their main priority, but ... Read on →

Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the tragedy in Fukushima, Japan, where an earthquake and tsunami crippled a coastal nuclear power plant, leading to meltdowns in three reactors, ... Read on →

Some people do not have a sense of time passing. They don't perceive time as a linear sequence of events in which the past, present and future are ... Read on →

Would it be too much to ask that the neocons at the Weekly Standard decide which country in the Middle East they want the United States to attack ... Read on →