Today, cholera can easily be controlled by maintaining simple sanitary standards--but there is no running water in much of Zimbabwe, and sanitation systems have collapsed.

Scott Gottlieb, M.D., reviews Michael Willrich's "Pox:An American History". The book chronicles the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service through governmental intrusion during the historical epidemic of 1898-1903.

Given the bleak outlook for the World Trade Organization Doha Round, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will become the single most important US trade initiative over the next several years.

The populist stance of U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the North American Free Trade Agreement is obscuring sustainability concerns.

Is housework "deeply alienating"? How do American families feel about it?

Paul Wolfowitz can help to reduce poverty and spread democracy by replacing command and control with incentives to reach those goals.

Do controls on information about the safety of Chinese food and drugimports hinder the ability of U.S. regulators to protect American consumers?

The year 2006 has reverberated with sobering reminders--Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority--that democracy's progress in the Middle Eastwill be no easy thing.