Barack Obama calls for a "movement for change," but he is preaching classic liberal ideals that have been around since the New Deal.

Over the past two decades, the share of working age Americans collecting disability insurance payments has doubled, from 2.3 to 4.6 percent of the population aged 25 to 64, with the largest increases coming among women.

Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, a Polish Second World War hero who spent his life fighting for an independent democratic Poland, died late on Thursday aged 91. A symbol of Polish patriotism, Nowak-Jezioranski is revered by his countrymen alongside anti-communist icon and Poland's first post-communist President Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul.

Barring the unimaginable, just 30 years from now, Japan will be a far smaller and vastly more aged country than the one we know today. On the cusp of a monumental demographic transformation, Japan is gradually but relentlessly evolving into a society whose contours and workings are the stuff of science fiction.

A system that lets participants choose between the traditional system and a lower-cost settlement paid in inflation-adjusted Treasuries could ensure the program's solvency.

Single-sex schooling is not for everyone. But it can help some students to become more focused and well-rounded.

Kaplan CEO Andrew Rosen argues that the current crisis provides an opportunity to place questions of student learning, innovation and cost containment at the center of higher education reform debates, and that policymakers can look to for-profit colleges for key lessons about how to retool postsecondary education to reflect new priorities.

Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover.