Sadly, 43 years after CBS News ran a documentary called "Hunger in America" it could do a new version coming to the same, if not more dire and depressing, conclusions. Hunger is here, in a real and palpable way, exacerbated by our tough economic conditions and persistent unemployment, but worsened as well by the high cost of food, especially nutritious food.

German authorities probably saw monetary union as a stepping-stone toward tighter political union. Building a $1 trillion bailout reserve, requiring more coordination of fiscal policies, furthers that end.

Calling what has happened over the past two years a "perfect storm" treats problems in financial markets as if they were imposed from outside by a force of nature.

Genetic manipulation of the human species is coming. In fact, it has arrived.

Any sign that the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is looking for favors from influential and wealthy people for a personal cause should raise alarm bells everywhere.

One of the most significant advances in the 110th Congress was the passage earlier this year of a lobbying and ethics bill.

It’s depressing to watch, but it is missing the point that the Volcker rule would not have prevented the loss and is probably unworkable.

Kaspar Hauser reported that he had spent his life living in a small dark cell, and almost never came in contact with his caretaker.