By keeping the focus on better health for real people, perhaps we’ll develop both the humility to recognize how little we still understand as well as the drive to ensure — and emphatically demand — that our advances ultimately wind up not only in papers, but also in patients.

Iran is not amusedby the villain of the latest Hollywood hit.

By the numbers, women have largely achieved equality in the U.S. For those who want to continue the fight, there's plenty of work left to do abroad.

The continuing sharp disparities in economic progress, democratic stability, and social justice among nations--a decade after the fall of communism, and in the face of the global spread of democratic--capitalist policies and institutions---have raised anew the issue of cultural inheritance as a central factor in development. The significance of...

Almost every important tendency in modern thought has questioned the possibility of making moral judgments.

Those who believe bin Laden's death has brought the war on terror to an end fundamentally misunderstand the ideology that motivates both jihadist terrorism and Islamist antipathy toward the West in general and the United States in particular.

The president long differentiated between the hunt for Bin Laden, which he saw as legitimate, and the wider war on terrorism which he saw as not.

The presidential campaign has been extraordinary in many ways, and it appears poised to alter some familiar demographic patterns.