When partnering with outside consultants to turn around a school, schools districts must consider how the work is setting schools up for long-term success.

Despite President Obama's protestations to the contrary, rationing access to medical care is carefully prescribed in the health care reform bill that is now before the Senate.

The only leverage the U.S. had was to cancel the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word.

While the FDA is trying to save patients from the harmful effects of new medicines,manymore patients will die waiting for the good medicines than from using bad ones.

Under current Food and Drug Administration cancer policies, many more patients will die waiting for the "home-run" drugs than would be harmed by mediocre ones.

When it comes to making new drugs safer, most of the obvious solutions are already accounted for; we have reached the flat part of a curve that measures incremental safety against the additional cost.

When an imperious bully like Fidel Castro starts to fear, his instinct is to try to sow fear among his enemies. Today, with his student and benefactor, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, dying of cancer, what the Cuban dictator fears most is that his bankrupt regime in Havana is about to lose billions in critical aid and oil.

Now that the issue has been put on ice, it is a good time for a dispassionate look at the proposed new Department of Homeland Security.