In a time when most businesses are obsessed with the newest, latest, greatest thing, Proctor and Gamble has reached back into its past. The iconic American company has ousted its current CEO and brought back the 66-year-old A.G. Lafley for another go as Chief Executive. The business world...

Unlike the unending political news of the scandals rocking the Obama Administration -- IRS, AP, Benghazi, where there is a growing, universal consensus Inside the Beltway that something is, at best wrong and at worst rotten -- the debate on immigration has become more of a...

It's not often that a Broadway musical and the British Prime Minister sing from the same songbook. But that's exactly what's happening in New York this week. At the Duke Theatre, the musical The Memory Show debuted, dramatizing the devastation families suffer when dealing with Alzheimer's. Across town, at Rockefeller...

The sun is setting on the West. According to the International Monetary Fund's new report, World Economic Outlook , there is not much light on the economic horizon for most OECD nations. The developing world, on the other hand, appears to have a bright future.

And perhaps...

The World Vaccine Congress meets this week for its annual marquee event in Washington D.C.

For an event that is supposed to "tackle the full spectrum of industry concerns," one item is conspicuously missing from their agenda: adult vaccines. As the global population ages, a "life-course...

A new study by the RAND Corporation projects that the cumulative costs of caring for people with dementia could be as high as $215 billion annually in the United States, exceeding the costs of heart disease and cancer.

The RAND study, published in the venerable

There has been plenty of bad economic news of late. Europe's slogging fiscal crisis took an ugly turn with the Cyprus debacle, and the U.S.'s recent jobs report was yet another kick to the gut. Worse, both "news" items provide further evidence that the so-called Great Recession was...

Sixty years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring introduced the concept of "environmentalism." Her analysis of pesticides triggered international uproar, and people began thinking in an entirely new way about how they should live in this world.

Twenty years ago, the environmental movement was in full swing....

Here's one thing both conservatives and liberals can agree upon: the Republican Party is at a crossroads. Some may label it an "identity crisis," and others may call it a "new set of challenges," but, following President Obama's thumping of Mitt Romney last November, it is clear that Republicans are...

The "Ryan budget" is out, and the predictable firestorm has ensued. Extolled by some and derided by others, the GOP's fiscal framework gets one thing right: the aging of the American population is a severe threat to both Medicare and Social...

President Obama's announcement to enter into free trade talks with our European allies will create an agreement driving global economic growth and might also serve the positive (if unintended) consequence of domestic political consensus building. While it may not solve Sequester, it is a very substantial answer to the fiscal...

In the course of President Obama's SOTU litany, his recommitment to spending on Alzheimer's research stands out as the one topic that brought applause from both sides of the aisle. It even earned praise from some of Obama's most severe ideological critics. On Fox News,

Apart from the blackout, it seems that the most memorable part of the Super Bowl was the commercial with the older people dancing, carousing and eating tacos. The advertisement's "night on the town" storyline is wholly unoriginal, but audiences apparently appreciate the ironic mismatch between actions...

Everyone seems to agree that healthcare is failing and that costs are too high.

It isn't, and they aren't. Healthcare is keeping us healthier longer than ever before, and the costs are skyrocketing because so too is demand.

This is reason to celebrate. We're living longer. We have access...

So just how seriously is the United States taking this whole thing about debt, deficit and unchecked spending? Consider the following.

Exhibit 1:
A quip left in the comments section of a blog leads many in the U.S. government to consider minting a trillion-dollar coin. This

When Deborah Needleman accepted the role of Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times Style Magazine this fall, the publishing, writing and style world started impatiently to wonder how she would apply her genius creativity and professional aplomb. And, for all the speculation, who...

So did 2012 end with a bang or a whimper? America avoided the Fiscal Cliff, but only through a very-temporary, very-limited political deal. Greece remained a part of the European Union, if only by name. And Asia continued to fret about whether

Happy holidays! And good luck with the annual self-improvement lie-fest known as the "New Year's Resolution?" This year, maybe it's time to try something different. Really, how many times can you promise to eat more broccoli or spend a full eight minutes on your abs?

Since...

The recent "right to work" legislation in Michigan is the latest challenge to the labor union's relevancy in the 21st century. While some welcome this downfall and others celebrate it, there is little room to debate the historical value of labor unions to drive both economic...

Poor pop culture... the favorite punching bag of the opinionated classes and political intelligentsia. But as wonks, geeks and Hill rats wax un-poetically and swap jabs over how to "save" Social Security and Medicare as we approach the so-called "fiscal cliff," it seems that the industry of...