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    Similar legislation was twice vetoed by President George W. Bush, who opposed raising tobacco taxes and argued that expanding the popular program would push more children into government-run health care instead of private plans. In stark contrast, expanding the Children's Health Insurance Plan…

Original Source By Marc S. Tucker We pay more per pupil for our elementary- and secondary-education system than any other industrialized country except Switzerland, yet the United States ranks near the bottom in performance. For the price they pay, Americans should expect the learning equivalent…

By Ian Wilhelm. In 1975, Le Nhan Phuong left Vietnam, one of about 2,000 child refugees spirited to America by international aid groups. Today, he has returned to his homeland, but now it is he who is helping others. Dr. Phuong is the newly appointed…

The reasons behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ decision to spend all of its endowment are outlined in this 2009 speech by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Annual Meeting of Delaware Valley Grantmakers in Philadelphia. My talk this afternoon poses the question, which I…

by NEIL MACFARQUHAR An unprecedented declaration seeking to decriminalize homosexuality won the support of 66 countries in the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, but opponents criticized it as an attempt to legitimize pedophilia and other ''deplorable acts.'' The United States refused to support the…

The Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed the state takeover of the St. Louis school system, which has struggled for years with poor finances and student test scores. The decision on Tuesday backs the appointment of a three-member governing board that has run the St. Louis…

Some of the research by Northern Ireland's universities is world-leading, a report said today. Civil engineering, nursing and midwifery and electrical engineering were among subjects attracting the highest praise, a review by other colleges said. The University of Ulster (UU) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB)…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside researchers have received a three-year, $390,060 grant from the Spencer Foundation to expand and update the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, which investigates patterns of continuity and change in four-year higher education institutions in the United States. A research team headed…

by DAN RODRICKS In the report from the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, the people of this state and their elected representatives have all the evidence needed to abolish the death penalty, once and for all, in the next session of the General Assembly. But…

by Claire Simpson MORE than 10 years after a bill of rights was first agreed in the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has presented its recommendations on the bill to the British government. The proposals are the culmination of a long…