President Barack Obama began his second term with a promise to push harder on energy and climate change.

Has American medicine gotten too good at treating pain? The profession once took pain to be a positive sign of healing. As recently as 50 years ago, even patients recovering from surgery went without medicine to relieve the ache and discomfort. Today, 0To fight back, the federal government is expected to soon tighten the rules for prescribing a popular subset of painkillers, those containing the narcotic hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen (Vicodin is one of these) or with ibuprofen.

Whether it’s Darwinian theory or basic logic is irrelevant. All job-seekers need to know that it’s getting increasingly difficult to land decent employment without a bachelor’s degree.

Even as the position of women continues to evolve in Canada and the West, recent events in two key emerging economies — India and South Africa — are poignant reminders of the challenges that remain in developing countries.

Over the past six years, Ford’s Engine Plant No. 1 in Brook Park, Ohio, has held a mirror to the health of the domestic auto industry.

The best reason for Maine to expand Medicaid eligibility to the limits of the federal Affordable Care Act is that it would be good public policy.

Workplace flexibility? Good. Workplaces with rows of empty spaces? Not so good.

“This is not the kind of a question you can leave to Congress,” Justice Antonin Scalia pronounced during a Supreme Court argument on Wednesday.

The budget cuts designed to be too awful for either party to stomach go into effect today, telling us all we need to know about our politics.