Barack Obama should consider the recommendations put forth in a policy report suggesting early engagement with countries on the brink of genocide.

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to allow smokers to sue tobacco companies for selling "light" cigarettes could signal a more balanced approach to business cases.

Gladwell's determinism is pleasantly egalitarian. But it slights individual creativity.

Any mammal can obsess about fairness. The real human trick is to get past the quid pro quo and try to focus on the common good.

After workers staged a sit-in at a window factory in Chicago, the president-elect was asked about it at a news conference. His response was surprising - and refreshing.

If undertaken with enough will and persistence, an American-led mediation to create a common market in East Africa could end the war and transform the region.

By heading to a poor, underdeveloped, or war-torn country to adopt a baby, Westerners may inadvertently achieve the opposite of what they intend.

A writer describes his chance encounter in 1987 with Jan Kerouac, the daughter of the Beat Generation icon.