Razor wire surrounds the city Workhouse on Hall Street. Photo By Jamie Rector

City corrections officials are spitting mad about a recent report on conditions at the city’s two jail facilities — the City Justice Center downtown and the Medium Security Institute…

Catholic bishops in Africa have denounced Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and have called on South African leaders to stop supporting him or be “complicit in passive genocide,” according to the International Herald Tribune. The bishops called for Mugabe to step…

Let the games begin. The thrill of victory. The agony of defeat. The paralysis of smog. The terror of the secret police. The anxiety of a closed society pretending be open.

Welcome to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, which begin officially…

Philosophers long have pondered what separates humans from the great apes with whom we share 95 percent or more of our DNA.
Is it the ability to make and use tools? To remember the past and plan for the future? To…