What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

Normally, we expect to get thanked when giving a few bucks to a good cause. When it comes to K-12 schooling, though, folks giving away millions have been slammed for their trouble.

Hefty majorities approve of President Obama's economic performance, but approval numbers for congressional Republicans remain dismal.

The reception in Moscow to U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul during his first few months on the job has been unusual, if not downright hostile, a lot more Cold War than Russian Reset.

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.

Middle Eastern terrorists used to be able to hide their propaganda, but modern communications technology puts it all in the open.

Two recent experimental drugs demonstrate that new scientific principles are faster becoming superior medicines, but bad government policies threaten to reverse this trend.

Gadgets have taken over our lives -- particularly among the young, who have no defenses against them.