There was nothing like "Doug" prior to 1990. Most of what came before the rise of the new order of Nicktoons -- "Ren And Stimpy" and "Rugrats" -- consisted of pre-approved ideas, taken to the small screen after they had already been widely popularized. That's not to say there wasn't variation, but there was no original content. Shows like "Ninja Turtles" and "Charlie Brown" were taken from comics that came long before their characters found a way to your Saturday morning tube...

he GI Bill, designed to help veterans live the American dream, is being gobbled up by for-profit colleges that spend lavishly on marketing but can leave veterans with worthless degrees.

Nowhere is this a bigger problem than in California, where nearly 2 out of every 3 GI Bill dollars go to for-profit companies—institutions created to make money...

Bikini models, tweens, drug dealers, and hawker tycoons; Ipanema -- the world's most famous beach -- is so much more than its famous "girl" from that song...

Luis Suarez has been accused of biting another football player. As a psychiatrist I'd ask if primitive Freudian urges explain his behavior...

That's right: Officers threw a flashbang grenade in my son's crib -- and left a hole in his chest. It gets worse...

A novelist scrawling away in a notebook in seclusion may not seem to have much in common with an NBA player doing a reverse layup on a basketball court before a screaming crowd. But if you could peer inside their heads, you might see some striking similarities in how their brains were churning...

Ted Cruz, the Republican junior senator from Texas, has heard the line about how the Party needs to become more moderate to win Presidential elections. “It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always ‘Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats,’ ” he told me. “That’s been true for my entire lifetime. The chattering classes have consistently said, ‘You crazy Republicans have to give up on what you believe and become more like Democrats.’ And, I would note, every time Republicans do that we lose.”...

Meet Josh. Josh is a 30-year-old artist/chef who lives in a converted warehouse in Hackney, east London. Josh has a beard, glasses and cares about the provenance of his coffee. He pays his tax, doesn't have a 9-to-5 job and, along with his five polymathic flatmates, shuns public transport, preferring to ride a bike...

Not too long ago, Sambo's had 1,117 locations in 47 states -- and a reputation for pushing racist iconography along with its breakfasts...

Not too long ago, right here in America, there was a restaurant called Sambo’s. That’s Sambo: as in, the racist slur for a loyal and contented black servant. Or Sambo: as in, The Story of Little Black Sambo—the controversial 1899 children’s book by Helen Bannerman about a dark-skinned South Indian boy that eventually came to be seen as emblematic of black “pickaninny” stereotypes...

Gerry Goffin, who collaborated with Carole King to write some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, songs that endured through generations and became classics, including “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?,” “Up on the Roof,” “One Fine Day” and “The Loco-Motion,” died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75...