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A history of the country’s struggle with alcoholism, and why the government has done so little about it. Picture the Russian alcoholic: nose rosy, face unshaven, a bottle of vodka firmly grasped in his hands. By his side he has a half-empty jar of pickles and a loaf of rye bread...

As a young doctor, I helped perform a Santeria ritual for a patient in jail, rather than sending him to psychiatrists. I think I did the right thing. The entrance to Ward D, in the bowels of Jackson Memorial Hospital, was through a thick steel door with a chest-high peephole....

The judiciary may appear the only functional branch of the federal government, but it's contributing in a big way to a major national problem. By a strange coincidence, the Supreme Court's October Term may begin just as the rest of the government collapses. The Court, however,...

American universities award more than 60,000 doctoral degrees every year. However, there are not enough academic jobs for all those graduates. One study asserts that only 41 percent of Ph.D.s will find tenure-track positions. Some studies are slightly more optimistic.  In...

Time is running out to put the brakes on the planet's warming, says arguably the most exhaustively researched scientific paper in history. The polar icecaps are melting faster than we thought they would; seas are rising faster than we thought they would; extreme weather events...