The American Bar Association is considering a plan that would endanger the accreditation of any law school where fewer than three-quarters of the students pass the bar within two years.That is setting up a battle within the organization, pitting critics of two very different problems against each other. Those who are worried about the glut […]

COLDCASESFor more than 50 years, his romantic partners have died or vanished. Now, he’s finally on trial.Memo:ATTN: National editorsBy Travis M. Andrews (c) 2016, The Washington Post.For more than half a century, Felix Vail’s love life has left a trail of dead bodies and missing persons.His first wife, Mary Horton Vail, died while out fishing […]

Making my rounds in the hospital one day, I put my stethoscope to a patient’s chest while she kept her eyes fixed on the television screen over my shoulder.Hours before, bombs had torn through an airport and a train station in Brussels. My 65-year-old patient watched a flurry of images on Fox News showing unfathomable […]

When I taught at a charter school, I once gave out 37 demerits in a 50-minute period. This was the sort of achievement that earned a new teacher praise in faculty-wide emails at Achievement First Amistad High School, in New Haven, Conn. Amistad is a No Excuses school, in the mold of high-profile charter networks […]

SOUTH BOSTON, Va. — Outside the Annin Flagmakers factory in this perennial swing state, a summer of discontent is brewing. They feel the country’s divides inside, too — gulfs between rich and poor, left and right, this side and that side, that seem to grow deeper with each passing week. Yet as their hands glide […]

JAFFA, Israel — In a family’s living room in this seaside town, seven people spin in circles to the beat of a drum and the strumming of a guitar. As the music gets faster, so does their turning, with their arms stretched out, swaying above their heads. These are Jewish Israelis. They are practicing the […]

When Chelsea Clinton takes the stage on Thursday night to introduce her mother, she faces a tall order. The once and perhaps future first daughter will be in direct competition with longtime friend Ivanka Trump, who emerged as the star of last week’s Republican convention. Even die-hard Democrats were impressed by the performance of the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE — This story is part of Divided America, AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society. By Christina A. CassidyAssociated Press Hillary Clinton and Mary Thomas have little in common, except for this: They both hope to add to the meager ranks of America’s female elected officials come […]

When President Ronald Reagan — my father — was lying in a hospital bed recovering from the gunshots that nearly killed him, he said, “I know my ability to heal depends on my willingness to forgive John Hinckley.” I, too, believe in forgiveness. But forgiving someone in your heart doesn’t mean that you let them loose […]

Fighting, disregarded, alone. Imagine being a single woman at the age of 20, leaving your home, not sure whether your family is alive, not sure if you’re going to survive, and not sure where you will be in a year, a month, or even a week. Throughout my freshman year at Bates, but especially through […]