As a writer-activist who has fought for the rights of Muslim women, I thought I knew my fellow bad girls of Islam. But Wafa Sultan, 47, has given new meaning to the word bad. A psychiatrist in Syria before transplanting to Southern California in 1989 with her family, she gave an interview with al-Jazeera a [...]

When we stop and think about the forces that have helped shape our lives, many of us can recall a loving parent or a caring teacher, or someone else who encouraged and inspired us and made us what we are today.
But how many of us can look back and say, “I owe it all to [...]

It may not fall into the category of miracle, but the fact that Carson Palmer is being considered for NFL comeback player of the year is at least the stuff of a good Christmas story.

How can you be seen as a comeback player when you haven’t missed a game all season and have been named [...]

Genia Melzer and Julian Bilecki as teenagers and today, 55 years later.
Genia Melzer was destined to die at the hands of the Nazis, but the Jewish teen-ager — now a great- grandmother — owes her life to a “righteous gentile” named Julian Bilecki. After 55 years, a grateful Genia got to say thanks. Again.
When she [...]

Unlike movies and books about the sport, real-life horse racing does not often produce stories with happy and satisfying endings. Modern thoroughbreds are so fragile that people who spend their lives around the animals always brace themselves for the worst outcomes.

But even for the most hardened racetrackers, the death of Barbaro yesterday was a painful [...]