The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.