America has budget challenges and these need to be met, but to forsake investment in the future assures a dumber future for the nation. This is what is at stake, and the debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan is the vital exchange that Americans must hear in deciding the country's course.

Science is not a special interest; it's a national interest. And it's time for organized labor -- as well as the business community -- to rally behind it.

While the immediate impact of the mid-term elections was clearly political, the overriding message of the elections was not. It was about jobs. Americ...

Legislators now say it could be 2012 before any reform bill is passed, which means the U.S. will continue to hemorrhage entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists.

Rather than keeping apace of scientific advances, the U.S. system of education has fallen woefully behind. The stimulus package can address this reality.