Two columnists present contrasting views about banning books in school libraries.

After 173 years, historians continue to debate the whether the Mexican War was a "just" war or whether President James K. Polk used a minor boundary infraction to provoke a conflict, allowing an expansion of United States territory.

Scenic City Friends, a 50+ nonprofit organization of men and women who volunteer at Parkridge Medical Center, recently donated two new wheelchairs to the hospital's fleet of chairs. Jamie Lawson, marketing director of Parkridge Hospital, accepted the donation.

How many ways can we say this? It's inevitable. Here we go again. Let's hope this time is easier, but let's not count on it.

America doesn't make sense anymore.

This may be the day the Supreme Court turns this country on its head.

After U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, unleashed a torrent of negative comments about a fellow Southern Republican last week, the onetime mantra frequently used by Ronald Reagan almost seems quaint, a bon mot of another, more genteel era.

Non-white students in Hamilton County Schools in the 2019-2020 school year made up a majority of the enrolled students for the first time, according to an interactive K-12 dashboard released earlier this week by the office of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.

Oh, the irony.

Nearly 90 years after the New Deal, nearly 60 years after the Great Society, 40 years after Ronald Reagan's Republican revolution purported to put "family values" at the center of our politics, the world's most prosperous nation still guarantees not a single measly paid day off work for mothers and fathers who welcome a new child into the world.

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock went to Washington from the pulpit of Atlanta's famed Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Compared to almost any other public health or environmental problem, the presence of toxic lead in drinking water is an easy one to fix. Congress is giving the country a chance to do so.

CNN finally admitted Tuesday night that anchor Chris Cuomo went too far.

Maybe in retrospect, a half century from now, as historians look at all the facts, figures and long-term outcomes, we will understand the pandemic crisis, how it got started, what policies worked and whether honesty and science were sometimes set aside.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments for and against a Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks.