The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday, Feb. 13:The way sexual assaults are handled in the military is a disaster — even the top brass concede at this point. The Associated...

The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, Oct. 11:The addition of three Nobel laureates — Stanford’s Michael Levitt and Thomas Sudhof and University of California at...

The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday, March 18:When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed last year to take up Proposition 8, its ruling on California's gay marriage ban was...

The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, Jan. 18:Lance Armstrong's confession, after years of aggressive denial that he took banned substances, reveals the magnitude of...

Political debates over whether abortion should be legal will rage until the end of civilized time. But until recently, it seemed that public policy on birth control was a non-issue, except for a few extremists...

Given a choice, would you use taxpayer money to subsidize banks, or to help students pay for college?It’s rare for a public policy question to be this big a no-brainer. But that’s the right way to...