Madeline is in the swing, her face the picture of delight. “Mo, mo,” she cries and kicks her legs to show me that she wants…

The UN Sustainable Development Summit last week projected a new set of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the next 15 years to replace the…

A short study [3] released Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine found that minorities wait, on average, 25% longer to obtain medical care than do whites. The period waiting…

This September, millions of young Americans will start college, but at what cost? Each year, the collective student loan debt skyrockets as tuitions continue to…

Few meetings ever started with dimmer prospects for success than the recent meeting between Presidents Obama and Putin. The real call for the meeting stemmed…

I couldn't help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title…

The dying cities of the Rust Belt shouldn't have brain gain. But they do. Real estate appreciation within an urban core suffering from demographic decline doesn't…

Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the first genetically modified "arctic" apple, developed by the Canadian biotech company Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc., which…

Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst under 7 presidential administration, from the John F. Kennedy White House to that…

In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian…

Even though the effort to repeal S.B. 277 in California has officially failed, possibly due to what many suggest may have been a concerted act…

The US meat industry scored a big victory this week when world leaders hammered out an agreement that would reduce trade barriers across the Pacific: from the…