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I am a little church (no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities. . . (Pantheon/Pantheon) - — “Poem 77” from “95 Poems,” by E.E. Cummings The imaginative scope and literary ambition of Edward Estlin Cummings, a central figure in modernist poetry,...

AFTER ANY mass shooting, a vocal faction in Congress insists that Americans would be safer if more people carried guns into restricted public places. Allowing teachers to carry firearms on campus struck us as not helpful. But now that Fort Hood, Tex., has seen its second rampage...

Legal marijuana is spreading like a weed across the land but it has yet to take root in the place where people might benefit most from inhaling: the U.S. Capitol. The Maryland General Assembly was finishing work Monday on a marijuana decriminalization bill, joining 20 other...

Torture is immoral, illegal and irreconcilable with this nation’s most cherished values. If defenders of the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program disagree, they should come out and say so. Instead, they blow smoke. Sexist smoke, at that: Former CIA director Michael...

There is a moment, a mere moment, when Donald Rumsfeld’s eyes well up and he chokes a bit. This comes in Errol Morris’s documentary “The Unknown Known,” in which Rumsfeld mentions visiting the wounded of the Iraq war. It is then that we get a glance at the man who...

Liberals are shocked (shocked!) that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his co-partisans would consider cutting Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants and other programs that serve the neediest Americans. They have accused Ryan of trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. But...

Supporters of Obamacare are celebrating that the law is not an unmitigated disaster, just a mitigated one. As enrollment closed (for most) on March 31, the system passed 7 million exchange sign-ups. What some are taking as a triumph of governmental competence was actually an...

___ Buffalo at Lehigh Valley, 5:05 p.m. Syracuse at Pawtucket, 6:15 p.m. Indianapolis at Toledo, ppd., rain Gwinnett at Norfolk, ppd., rain Louisville at Columbus, 6:35 p.m. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. Charlotte at Durham, 7:05 p.m. Syracuse at Pawtucket, 6:15...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio legislative panel has changed a budget bill to make clear that college athletes are not employees under state law. The move comes after a decision last month by a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board involving the Northwestern...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Revenue figures show March was a good month for Ohio’s four casinos. The numbers released Monday show each casino had a significant increase from February. The bump mirrors a similar boost in casino revenues last March following winter slumps. This year,...