OPINION

Sadly, another surfer has been killed off the coast of Australia, but humans need to recognize they are putting themselves at risk.

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?

The controversy surrounding Daniel Tosh's comments might be a surprise to anyone who has spent time in a comedy club.

As the son of Indian immigrants, Jindal would ease Romney’s image of being the candidate of rich, white, country club WASPs.

Events in Libya and Egypt highlight the potential benefits of United States human rights promotion -- both for the U.S. and for people across the world -- as well as the downsides of America's failure to pursue that task.

Why is it that when a guy tells a joke, everyone laughs, but if a woman tells that same joke, she is looked down upon as (1) unladylike, (2) desperately seeking attention, or (3) still not over the pain of childbirth?

In the public?s mind, ?Lawrence of Arabia? is not T.E. Lawrence, the brave British soldier who helped the Arab tribes fight against their Ottoman Turkish overlords. but rather Peter O?Toole, who had little in common with the character he portrayed.

Orlando's best case scenario in trading Howard involves the Los Angeles Lakers. In return for Howard, the Magic receive the NBA's second best center, Andrew Bynum.

A breastfeeding reality show? Television has possibly hit a new low. The people who brought you the fantastically bad reality shows Bridezillas and Dance Moms are now planning to shock the masses with their newest installment, Extreme Parenting, according to the Daily Mail.

It's common knowledge that parking in New York is a miserable experience. Finding spots can be frustrating, parking is expensive, street-side parking notices are inscrutable and you have to move your car often.

There is an undeniable transformation happening to the United States of America. For some it is subtle, for some it is overt, for some it is seemingly nonexistent. But, for all, it is disastrous and happening before our very eyes.

Kris Humphries just cannot stay out of the headlines. The free agent forward has followed up his high profile marriage and divorce with a career year, being bestowed with the ignominious honor as the 'Most Disliked Player In The NBA' and on Monday, he has emerged as the final obstruction to the blockbuster trade of the year.

The Wall Street Journal (Nasdaq: NWSA) and AOL Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL) Huffington Post spar over the facts surrounding recent allegations that Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) employees have denied sale of iPads to Farsi speakers.

Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.

Consider BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM): is it in a ?death spiral? or a tarnished diamond that with better management can be revived for a bright future?

Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford has been a target of criticism since he signed a $142 million contract with the team, but last night a fan added to the usual overrated, overpaid repertoire of insults.

Many high school graduates want to forego university altogether.

He asserted that a number of major leaguers who have been elected into the Hall of Fame in recent years also did not deserve enshrinement.

There are, in fact, tens of millions of Muslims around the world who are ?white? -- and no one would bother to call them ?white Muslims.?

Is Pakistan an enemy of the United States? For the past two years, the Obama administration has doggedly maintained that the South Asian nation remains a vital American ally, even as it has grappled with what it itself admits is a ?complicated? relationship.

Connery grew up a hard-drinking, womanizing, football-loving brawler who sported tattoos and was employed at a number of dead-end jobs as a laborer.

What Cooper did in public should definitely not be called a coming out. It was a dragging out of a perfectly secure gay man -- a throwing of a Christian to the media lions.

To some extent, monetary easing has been accommodated because of stable-to-lower inflationary pressures.

Independence Day gives us 24 hours to reconnect with these ?truths self-evident.? But it is these same truths that we increasingly take for granted.

If talk radio had existed in 1776, the Declaration would have been the script.

Our teachers need your help, especially when this economy is so uncertain.

We commemorate our independence from tyranny, and we remember the blood that was shed and the lives that were lost in the formation of this exceptional country.

The Magic are reportedly open to trade talks with the Nets.

The first minutes of The Newsroom pilot episode are a harbinger of the appalling gender representations to come. While giving a talk at a university, the show's protagonist, newscaster Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), explodes after a perky blonde college sophomore asks a (stupid) question about why America is the greatest country in the world, referring to the dumbfounded student as a sorority girl who may or may not accidentally wander into a voting booth one day.