Philosopher, educator and controversial President of Boston University, John Silber (born 1926) was an internationally recognized authority on ethics, education and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. John Silber was born August 15, 1926, in San Antonio,...

A convicted rapist whose support from Gov. Deval Patrick became an election flash point last fall lost his eighth bid for a new trial Friday.The state Supreme Judicial Court rejected Benjamin LaGuer's claim that a state police fingerprint report that was not disclosed to the...

For Senator Barack Obama, it was supposedly a bad sign last November when Harold Ford, an African-American Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in a year when his party picked up six seats and lost none, fell three points short against a thoroughly average Republican...

It’s tempting to believe that the terrible revelation of Elizabeth Edwards’ incurable cancer will benefit the John Edwards candidacy, and that the understandable sympathy generated by the announcement will render the campaign immune to political attack. But precedent suggests otherwise. Last week’s announcement that Mr....