It has become fairly standard for employers to view the social media sites of prospective workers in order to learn more about them.

The old saying that what you don’t know won’t hurt you may be true sometimes, but not when it comes to ensuring the safety of the food supply.

A 1970s law based on 1960s science is all we have to protect us from toxic substances in our environment.

The Affordable Care Act was on trial in Washington this week, and we can only wait to find out the verdict.

Helping victims of human trafficking, some who have suffered rape and forced prostitution, put their lives back together requires providing them with a full range of reproductive services, including contraception and abortion.

A century ago, cautious housewives demanded that the butcher grind their beef in front of them so they could be sure he didn’t toss in offal or scraps of lower-quality meat.

The nation’s high school graduation rate rose from 72 percent to 75.5 percent between 2002 and 2009. The progress reflects intensive efforts by a number of states to develop and implement strategies to keep students from dropping out. And one key factor in prodding states to act was federal pressure — most notably, the oft-maligned […]

There are good reasons why the killing of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black youth who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer while walking through a gated community in Florida, has attracted national outrage.

In the decade since Wikipedia showed how it could be done, there has been an extraordinary democratization of knowledge.

As the U.S. unemployment rate has dropped over the past year, a persistent refrain from many quarters has been that part of the drop can be chalked up to people removing themselves from the labor force.