03/24/2015 - 20:00
We love questions. Readers find us with questions, and at times, they sound like homework questions.
03/16/2015 - 12:39
The first outburst of applause during the movie Cinderella came not when the wide-eyed ingenue arrived at the ball, or when she tried on the glass slipper, or even when she married her prince.
03/06/2015 - 06:00
One sure sign of an improved economy is that critics of President Barack Obama now focus, with laserlike precision, on foreign policy.
02/26/2015 - 07:00
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter. But it might not be time to celebrate, for most Americans believe the U.N. is doing a bad job,
Gallup.com reported this week.
02/20/2015 - 05:00
An Oklahoma legislator made headlines this week after leading a charge against (of all things) an AP American history course.
02/10/2015 - 11:51
We depend on the young to come into the public square with unfailing optimism and inexhaustible energy. But what if a significant portion of the next generation believes that they are fated and that success -- or failure -- is governed by forces outside of their control?
02/06/2015 - 05:43
The Christmas season's end
didn’t signal the death of the economic recovery. In January, employment rose by 257,000, and the jobless rate was 5.7 percent.
02/04/2015 - 17:04
It’s tempting to think of measles as a harmless disease people used to get back in the day. But take a look at your watch. In the next hour, 16 people around the world will die of measles.
02/03/2015 - 19:49
For centuries, physicians sought to prevent measles. They finally succeeded in the early 1960s, but in 1998 research erroneously linked the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. Now, measles have made a comeback.
01/30/2015 - 07:10
While many Americans hold a healthy respect for science, they are confused about scientific consensus -- and in some cases, sizable majorities of the public believe that scientific opinion is divided when it is not.