Children making their way to the United States from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala are not immigrants. They are refugees.
Most of these children have not seen the i...
WASHINGTON — We may have a “senile economy,” says economist Robert Litan of the Brookings Institution. That’s senile as in old, rigid and undynamic.
We are taught otherw...
Some of the most powerful lessons about what is good for a nation begin with one person’s tragedy. But too often, they’re not implemented until more people are martyred ...
The emergency immigration bill House Speaker John Boehner initially proposed last week was never going to become law — and he knew it. President Barack Obama had already...
West Africa is grappling with one of the world’s most fearsome and elusive adversaries: the Ebola virus.
As of Monday, the World Health Organization had tallied more tha...
If you think children from low-income homes don’t aspire to attend college, think again. They do, but they often lack the academic background and mentors to keep them on...
The medical malpractice process was designed to allow fair and just compensation when a patient is harmed through negligent health care; it is an important part of our h...
There's a new breakthrough hepatitis C drug treatment that cures — yes, cures — almost everyone who takes it. Unlike previous, far less effective treatments, patients su...
WASHINGTON — You could hear the tension in his voice. His 20-something daughter was living at home. She had a graduate degree from a good university that, in times past,...
For the past 50 years, the government’s annual poverty rate has hardly changed at all. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty...
