Thanksgiving is a time for the nation to take a step back and reflect.

To illuminate this moment of national introspection, watch these last six minutes of President Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address on January 11, 1989.

Although uttered over 20 years ago, President Reagan's words are like...

Last week, an immigrant-founded company called A123 Systems, headquartered outside Boston, opened an electric car battery-production plant in Livonia, Michigan that is slated to create 3,000 jobs over the next three years.

Congrats to the extraordinary founders of the company: Desh Desphande, an immigrant from India; Yet-Ming...

Carmen Castillo once fit the popular image of the daring entrepreneur.

She arrived from Spain young, single and ambitious. Knowing nothing about computers, Castillo launched her high-tech consulting agency from a one-bedroom apartment, with little more than a phone book and chutzpah.

Her humble start-up, Superior Design International, grew into...

This morning, President Obama is scheduled to give a speech at American University on the need for immigration reform as a means to support the economic recovery.

I can think of no more powerful message to the nation than that of the hard-working, struggling...

Raymond Spencer, an Australian‐born entrepreneur based in Chicago, has a window on the future--and a gusto for investing after founding a high‐technology consulting company that sold for more than $1 billion in 2006. "I have investments in maybe 10 start‐ups, all of which fall within a broad umbrella of a...

With Arizona poised to impose the toughest immigration laws in the land, and right-wing radio hosts calling for snipers at the border, President Obama says it's time to take another crack at comprehensive immigration reform.

His call to renew the immigration debate no doubt leaves many Americans thinking, "Here...