The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

The health news for the New York City is good — very good, in fact. And it must be especially gratifying to Bloomberg, given his longstanding personal commitment to public health. But it isn’t clear that the official narrative of New York’s health progress actually conforms with the health story for New York over the last decade.

The fierce battle over reform was based on the perception that Americans did not get good value for their money. That perception is wrong.

Our soldiers in Afghanistan have to deal with enough absurd rules of engagement without having to put up with one that can turn a serious wound into a mortal one. They deserve better — as do our Dustoff crews.

Economic progress and advances of medical technology have helped increase life expectancy. Nevertheless, a marked aging of the population has raised concerns that this progress may increase health care spending beyond sustainable levels. In previous research, Swiss economist Peter Zweifel found however that the share of the population approaching death--that...

Contrary to the popular misconception, the growth rate of national health spending has been dropping for a decade.

Russia is at the brink of a steep demographic decline--a peacetime population hemorrhage framed by a collapse of the birth rate and a catastrophic surge in the death rate.