80% of women at the top (in business, I presume) have husbands who don’t work.

The welfare reform of the 1990s was an unusual success for American social policy. By requiring more welfare mothers to work, reformers aimed to move them into jobs and reduce welfare rolls. Unexpectedly, reform was accompanied by a greater decline of caseloads--over 60 percent--that had previously been anticipated by research....

Does the chemical used to make non-stick frying pans endanger the lives of the workers who make it? Facing a daily assault of über-opinionated stories on the web, the public has developed low expectations of journalists. But we continue to have high standards for science reporters wrestling with information that can impact our health and safety. Sadly, such lofty expectations aren't always met.

This week, the New England Journal of Medicine reported the results of a remarkable study on an experimental drug that dramatically improved treatment of blacks with heart disease. BiDil is now on course to become the first "Race Drug"––a prospect fanning debate among the public, scientists, and government officials responsible...

When champions of genetically modified crops come face to face with the organic lobby, any common goals often get drowned out.

The Conservative Party's Senate reforms have gone nowhere, but the Canadian Senate's members should compete for a popular mandate in order to govern.

The murder of Pamela Waechter tells us thatit istime for national repentance, or in other words national return, from moralizing to morality.

Central to Barack Obama's world view is rejecting the idea of "American exceptionalism," a tradition that has been embraced as the defining feature of democracy in the United States.