The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

The U.S. military's new African Command can only serve Africa as a genuinely transformationalist institution.

The reality is that we simply do not know how efficacious most  drugs really are. 

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

There was a time when Wisconsin was a leader in school reform, but with intrepid leadership and innovative thinking to take on an entrenched and beleaguered profession, Wisconsin can return to a leadership position in K-12 schooling.

President Obama’s remarks on inequality, stoking populist anger at “the rich,” suggest that the theme for his reelection bid will be not hope and change but focus on reducing class disparity with government help. But this effort isn’t limited to economics; it is playing out in our nation’s schools as well.

If Barack Obama gets more than half the black vote and a quarter of the white vote, and if black turnout is high, then Hillary Clinton's campaignwill be in trouble.