At the National Spelling Bee, kids come from all over the country to spell words that find their roots all over the world. It doesn't matter if you're in kindergarten, like first-timer Edith Fuller or ...

Thank you to Jay A. Miller, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, for explaining to us the meaning of the 1st Amendment. The ACLU and many of our judges and lawyers ...

I HAVE just read dreadful prose by the much acclaimed Irish poet Seamus Heaney. His supposed appreciation of Robert Burns, to my ears, seemed entirely self-laudatory. He was walking on stilts (January ...