As chairman of the task force that created the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which came out in 1994, I learned from painful exp...
One of the most bewildering aspects of the current health-care debate is the failure to learn key lessons from health systems abroad.
Conservative talk show hosts decry ...
If the ideal of bipartisanship on major health care reform wasn't dead already, President Obama's summit meeting on Thursday killed it for good.
And that's not such a ba...
Articles such as "Departing lawmakers criticize Legislature," published in the Feb. 24 Butler Eagle, project a message that should be heeded by leaders in the Pennsylvan...
We love our digital gadgets — "magic" devices that define cool and promise to remake our lives for the better. But there is growing evidence of a dark side to the techno...
Young conservatives swelled the audiences at the American Conservative Union Foundation's Conservative Political Action Conference this year, and the speakers included m...
WASHINGTON — After more than a year of Republicans in Congress saying "No" to President Obama, are we seeing a crack in GOP solidarity against his plea for bipartisan co...
The longest week I ever spent was the six hours I spent watching Thursday's health care summit.
The better angel of my nature says that this confab is a wonderful specta...
WASHINGTON — Two hours before President Obama opened his health care summit, and two blocks away, a couple dozen reporters gathered at the invitation of The Christian Sc...
WASHINGTON — Amazingly, the congressional hearings on Toyota were relatively civilized. Apart from some inevitable theatrical hectoring, the questioning was generally re...
