This book explains how the risks of global aging can be contained with a combination of foresight and prudent public policy.

The crowd at the Fox News/Wall Street Journal debate in Myrtle Beach was feisty, with whoops and cheers for Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry, though not so much for Ron Paul. 

To win just under 40 percent of the vote in a primary with five active candidates is pretty impressive, even for a candidate like Mitt Romney, who started off with significant advantages in New Hampshire.

Amid the pre-Jan. 3 buzz, it's worth remembering that Republicans in most states, for better or worse, haven't been doing much in the way of following Iowa's lead in selecting a GOP presidential nominee.

Based on an estimation of all taxes paid and benefits received for each generation born between 1850 and 2090, today's youth will be the biggest winners.

The coming century stands to witness an extraordinary worldwide aging of the human population, and the emergence of aged societies will present citizens and policymakers around the world with challenges unknown to their predecessors. Will working populations support ever larger numbers of long-lived retirees? How will aging pressures affect national...

The same rules do not always apply each year when it comes to the Republican presidential nomination.

It is outrageous how quickly so many jumped at the opportunity to politicize this tragic shooting, blaming the tea party and conservative political rhetoric without a shred of evidence to back those claims.