Plotting the Decade on an X-Y Axis
How do you best measure a decade, and what do you measure if you do?
Sea Change in Government Science Still Offshore
Many scientists breathed easier as a new U.S. administration took charge, but not all of their hopes have yet been realized.
Might Health Care Reform Address Minority Gap?
Beyond the humanity, there's a business case for tackling the persistent gap in health for most U.S. minorities.
‘Obama Doctrine’ Edges Toward High Concept
After two big recent speeches, the president is teasing toward elucidating his administration's foreign policy parameters.
Ladling Data at a Government Info Soup Kitchen
A volunteer effort to make federal and state data more accessible to the public makes efforts to be transparent more genuine.
Do Panels Dispense Advice or Rationales?
The partisanization of just about everything in D.C. leaves a scientific advisory panel on bioethics moored in ideological shoals.
Shades of Candidates to Come
How can the American electorate be post-racial when even the shading of skin affects decision-making?
A Nation of Ostriches and Peacocks
A new Pew poll finds Americans are at record levels of isolationism, although large numbers are unilateralist and a plurality see China as the world's leading economic power.
Oh, One Last Thing Before You Go …
Advocacy groups en masse ratchet up their messages in the lead-up to the global climate change conference.
U.S. Lethargy at Copenhagen Might Be Best for Climate
The U.S. Senate's balkiness at passing a weak-kneed symbolic climate plan leaves an open door to a genuine and meaningful American bill.