Students encourage voters to vote against a language proposition in Nashville. | AP photo

Voters in Nashville yesterday decisively defeated an “English First” special election measure that would have made the Tennessee city of 600,000 people the largest in the country to require…

In the 12 days between the first presidential debate Sept. 26 in Oxford, Miss., and the second debate last night in Nashville, Tenn., the United States took a 6.0 hit on the economic Richter scale. That fact changed not only the…

Things should be getting under way at Nashville’s Belmont University in just a few minutes.

For those joining our debate live blog for the first time, everyone is invited — indeed, encouraged — to contribute thoughts by adding their comments to this…

You know that vague, shapeless worry that never quite goes away? That sense that the things you count on for your security and that of your family — your spouse, your children, your brothers, sisters and parents — aren’t quite solid?

It…