President Obama would have done better to decline the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded. The Nobel Committee should have worried that it was hanging an albatross around his neck.

Today Britain has the highest explicit tariffs on air travel of any nation, and this is set to increase in November.  Recent research shows how US travelers might react to such tariffs.

Myths about rises in domestic abuse on days of major sporting events are exaggerated and misleading and put truly at-risk women in other parts of the world at greater risk.

Review of Tyranny of Kindness: Dismantling the Welfare System to End Poverty in America, by Theresa Funiciello.

The suffering of Mother Teresa.

This is the first of an occasional series of reading lists tied to issues in the news.

Evidence from turnaround efforts outside education suggests the need to proceed deliberately and with realistic expectations.

While educators are eager to forget the financial woes of the past two years and return to the familiar routine of steady budget increases, the fiscal outlook for America's fourteen thousand school districts is bleak--not just for next year, but for a half decade or more.