Polls suggest Americans prefer personal responsibility to punitive taxes in combating the obesity problem.

Daily horror stories in the media about unfit doctors, unhealthy foods, dangerous chemicals, soaring gas prices, and incompetent child care have created a culture of fear. But is that fear well-founded?

In his new book Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (Hyperion, May 2006), John Stossel tackles the misconceptions,...

Federal feeding programs may be only a small part of the cause of America's growing weight problem, but they urgently need to be part of the cure.

A great truth about advertising is that it is a tool for communicating information and shaping markets.

For Russia and its people, the nightmare of Soviet totalitarianism has come to an end, only to be followed by a phenomenon much more familiar in Russian history: a "time of troubles."