Does public single-sex education have a future in the USA?

From the perspective of the corporate profit and loss statement, a trading loss is one expense item in the context of all revenues and expenses. So $2 billion should be compared to the bank's $26.7 billion in pretax profits for 2011, suggesting a reduction of something less than 10 percent in annual profit.

When it comes to stories on so-called toxic substances, the public discourse seems infected by "chemophobia."

House Republicans seem to be wavering on an earmark ban, but voters have a right to know before Election Day whether House Republican leaders will ban earmarks if they win the majority.

By not moving decisively to quash U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for an "international" inquiry into the Gaza flotilla fiasco, Obama's inaction is understood as implicitly consenting to this flagrant abuse of the U.N. Charter.

New UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has done well where he deferred to member governments, supported UN reform and demonstrated personal integrity.

If there is one conclusion that should be drawn from the boom in U.S. natural gas production, it is that supplies are so abundant that it makes economic sense to export some of our gas to countries overseas. No one could have imagined that possibility even a few years ago...

Is it panic time at Obama headquarters in Chicago? You might get that impression from watching events -- and the polls -- over the past few weeks.