Speaking at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday evening, Donald Trump Jr. offered a harsh critique of the American education system:

“Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class; now they’re stalled on the ground floor. They’re like Soviet-era...

Aside from repealing the Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump’s website gives only a few details for his health care policy, one of the most important issues facing Americans. He argues that “Obamacare” has resulted “in runaway costs, websites that don’t work, greater rationing of care, higher premiums, less competition...

Ella Fitzgerald sang that “into each life some rain must fall,” but it has felt like torrents of grief have fallen upon us in recent months. We all experience hardships and stress, and we are all very well-acquainted with that pit that forms in our stomach when nervousness takes...

Whether it’s by coincidence or causation, the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 has resulted in growing angst over income inequality.

Millions of workers disappeared from the workforce and have yet to return. This has magnified the gap between households at one end of the income spectrum and the other.

While this growing concern over the...

How does the architecture of our brain and neurons allow each of us to make individual behavioral choices? Scientists have long used the metaphor of government to explain how they think nervous systems are organized for decision-making. Are we at root a democracy, like the U.K....

You’ve probably heard the popular aphorism “to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.”

But you might not know who first said it.

In 1832, the Senate debated President Andrew Jackson’s unpopular...

Eighty years ago this week, in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla, a group of right-wing generals staged a military coup, aimed at overthrowing Spain’s democratically elected government.

The July 1936 uprising unleashed what would come to be known – somewhat...

So far, anti-Trump protests at the Republican convention in Cleveland have been relatively small in number, with marches in the hundreds, not thousands, and mostly peaceful.

On the campaign trail, however, anti-Trump activists have, on a few occasions, as in San Diego, turned confrontational and even violent.

Based on the research in my book,...

The U.S. Senate approved a bill July 13 with a vote of 92-2 to treat the nation’s opioid addiction crisis. It’s worth noting that one state – Georgia – recently passed a law that could block, rather than expand, access to treatment. Could other states also go in Georgia’s direction? Could it possibly be a good idea?

In...

I find myself in this place again. I am numb. I feel empty. I almost have no words.

In 2012, around the time of the birth of my son, I had a similar feeling. Trayvon Martin was killed. I was pregnant with a black male in a world that was not ready for him.

And here I am again, with a three-and-a-half-year-old now, following the deaths of many, many...