What the unfortunate comments—and lies—of the college team’s basketball coach can teach us about American culture and politics.

The impending judicial, media-fueled coup against President Dilma Rousseff is the culmination of the deepest political crisis in Brazil in 50 years.

Stanley Heller, executive director of the Middle East Crisis Committee, emphasizes in a letter to Sen. Richard Blumenthal that human rights violations in the kingdom run deep. They include “[beheading] people and [crucifying] them for non-crimes such as witchcraft, apostasy and defiance or criticism of the king.”

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a cult, and like most cults, its followers would probably object to the characterization.

The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct that land innocent people in prison.

When you press Democrats on their lousy trade deals or their flaccid response to Wall Street misbehavior, they automatically reply that those awful Republicans wouldn’t let the really good legislation get through. So let’s go to a place where Democratic rule is virtually unopposed and see if the excuse holds.

Winemakers can expect good grape harvests much earlier now, thanks to climate change, but scientists say the effect may not last.

With authorities using “cell site simulators” to gather ever more cellphone information, privacy and civil rights groups fear that an effort “to chill broad social movements” is underway. A federal investigation, the groups say, is necessary.

One of the more absurd things being said about the Donald Trump phenomenon is that the media created it. For the record, we didn’t.

In 2015, energy companies invested more in new renewables power plants in 2015 than in fossil fuel plants for the first time in history.

The new American system that’s been emerging from its chrysalis in recent years already had demagogic, authoritarian and autocratic tendencies. So don’t blame it all on Donald Trump.

Switching to renewable sources as fast as the world needs to will require changes so massive that, scientists say, it appears unlikely to happen.

It’s bad enough that an outrage was perpetrated last week against the voters of Maricopa County, Ariz. It would be far worse if we ignore the warning that the disenfranchisement of thousands of its citizens offers our nation.

The fact that massive Russian airstrikes and a determined assault by the Syrian Arab Army on the ancient city of Palmyra could dislodge at most a couple of thousand Islamic State fighters is not too surprising. But what does it say about the situation in Syria and Russian/Syrian strategy?

It is no accident that Islamic State is using Donald Trump in its new recruitment video—his political strategy actually mirrors that of the phony caliphate in some ways.