A small study by researchers at Microsoft has found the human attention span is shortening. At just 8 seconds, they say it is now shorter…

A stalemate in the Senate would leave the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) without powers they have used to track terrorists for years, say…

Data released last week by the U.S. government showed the U.S. economy came to a near halt in the first three months of 2015, falling…

From a perspective of continually searching for knowledge and relationships, for synthesizing information into a larger paradigm I have reached a point where the world…

History may signal it all started with this week’s trip to Sochi, led by their paperboy, Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with Foreign…

Presidential aspirant Jeb Bush this week may have damaged his chances by flubbing the answer to an entirely predictable question about his big brother’s decision to attack…

The U.S. federal government has mandated drug research with children. The need for children to participate in drug company research is high, and the temptation…

Duke Energy pleaded guilty on Thursday to environmental crimes and has agreed to pay a record $102 million in fines and restitution for years of…

When the United States sells billions of dollars in sophisticated arms to Arab nations, they are conditioned on two key factors: no weapons with a…

The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in…

The restrictions the Obama administration has placed on members of Congress wishing to peruse the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a managed trade agreement among…

Our prehistoric forebears are often portrayed as spear-wielding savages, but the earliest human societies are likely to have been founded on enlightened egalitarian principles, according…