There are few behaviors more deserving of stigmatization than addiction.

We must start making policy that is based on a moral confidence in ourselves rather than constantly making policy to beat back a stigma that empowers the powerless.

The possibility of a grand bargain that would produce major trade liberalization in manufacturing, services and agriculture has steadily diminished and has now disappeared.

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About a third of the world’s population, concentrated in poorer regions of the world, may be infected with TB, which generally lies dormant until the carrier’s immunity is impaired by another disease (often HIV infection). Without treatment, about half of the patients with active TB will die. According to WHO...

Legislation to raise the debt ceiling will give the government headroom to operate until 2013. But a temporary ceasefire in this fiscal war will not address the country's longer-run problems. The rating agencies are therefore justified in reconsidering America's triple-A credit rating.

Two-and-a-half years after its glitzy launch, a car that was meant to revolutionize personal transport in India--and perhaps all of Asia--remains stuck in first gear.

Obama's 2011 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility plan grants certain states waivers from No Child Left Behind accountability requirements if they agree to a series of preset conditions, but the waiver plan poses several notable risks.

The Norwegian model will create a two-tier system of corporate leadership: men will be chosen because of their value to the company, women simply because they are women.