Kathleen Parker

Driving along I-95 these days is an adventure to warm the undertaker's heart. Or the trooper's, whoever gets you first. I felt like a NASCAR driver myself this past Saturday...

I've called in the bomb squad to handle my snail mail and am hiring a cyberguard to protect my e-mail box from further assault. Judging from the response to a...

Forget the brain games. Forget reading aloud to your munchkins. Forget flashcards, calculators and computers. If you want your kid to go to college, buy him Legos. The latest craze...

Every time I read about a pregnant teen, or an abortion protest or an infant tossed into a trash bin, I think: Whatever happened to the pill? Remember the pill?...

I've finally stopped throwing up long enough to write this column. It wasn't that the president's State of the Union address was the longest in recent history. It wasn't the...

For the past couple of decades, we've been taught that rape is an act of violence, the ultimate expression of male power (usually) over female fragility. Now, new controversial research...

Elian Gonzalez may become one of American history's most regrettable footnotes. Not only are we missing an opportunity to unite a child with his only living parent, we are setting...

I feel like the woman who awoke from a coma after 16 years. In my case I've awakened from a month-long, drug-induced haze occasioned by shoulder surgery. Pain has been...

When you sign up with the military, you figure at some point someone might try to shoot you. When you become a police officer, likewise. Deadly risk comes with the...

When my son was a boy, he loved the books about The Stupid Family. The Stupids did all sorts of stupid things, which the writer refreshingly described as, well, "stupid."...