Obesity has become a danger far greater than hunger. Yet amid the alarming stories about its harm to America’s health and economy, one bit of information has been drowned out: The percentage of U.S. adults who are obese appears to have plateaued.
Read MoreEver since March, when the New York Times decided to make a cause celebre out of the resignation of Greg Smith, a vice president at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a cottage industry of first-person Wall Street departure stories has sprung up across the print media and blogosphere.
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During the 2008 presidential primary race, evangelical stalwart Mike Huckabee darkly hinted that Mitt Romney might believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. This time around, Romney is the featured graduation speaker at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. What changed?
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Germany has finally found a friend on the other side of the Atlantic: Time columnist Fareed Zakaria.
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The Obama administration has committed to ending the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2014. Basically, the White House is conceding that there will be no victory over the Taliban.
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In the late 1990s, regulators in some U.S. states began to make electric utilities sell their nuclear reactors to private operators. They weren’t trying to help head off climate change, yet they managed to do just that.
Going into the NATO Summit this weekend, the U.S. can celebrate some good news: Pakistan has reopened a route for the first time in six months that allowed containers of supplies for the U.S. embassy in Kabul to pass through to Afghanistan. Pakistan closed all supply roads after U.S.-led airstrikes along the border killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers on Nov. 25, 2011. Before opening them, Pakistan wanted an apology from the U.S. for the attack that many Pakistanis saw as intentional.
By 1932, Prohibition had obviously failed. But how could the U.S. legally bring back booze? A constitutional amendment had authorized the ban, and only another one could erase it. Luckily, during the Great Depression, anti-Prohibitionists had an economic argument.
Mitt Romney has already "repudiated" a proposed independent ad campaign that would have used President Barack Obama's former relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to attack the president. It wasn't a hard call for Romney.
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