On Oct. 4, 1957, history changed with the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik I, the world's first man-made satellite. Americans were alarmed that we had been outpaced technologically and saw the Soviet feat as a threat to our national security. In order to catch up with the Russians, our nation swung into action and infused new funding and resources into scientific research ... To support this national initiative, schools upgraded and expanded math and science instruction at every level ...

The Beatles are credited with putting this city on the map. But long before Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison conquered the music world in the mid-1960s, the city of their birth was prominent on another map as one of the largest slave trading centers in the world ...

Pentagon death and disability payments for service personnel are far lower than private sector payouts for like reasons, a Nobel Prize-winning economist says. The families of civilian workers killed in an environmental accident routinely collect millions of dollars in court settlements but the official Pentagon payout to family survivors is a $100,000 "death gratuity" plus $400,000 in life insurance ...

LONDON – A trip from Gatwick Airport to London's central city is visible confirmation…

Our economy is in dire straits. The employment levels are hitting new lows and no end is in…

We should no more be blind of our colors and sacrifice cultural differences among people than to advocate the repudiated legal doctrine of 'separate but equal' in the 1896 Supreme Court Case of Plessy v. Ferguson. In the American mosaic, this nation is made up of many faces, of many races, from distant places. Each tile in the national mosaic is of particular value while also being of collective value to a greater artistic idea ...

More than a week after an historic election, political analysts still are sifting through the results, trying to figure out how different segments of society voted, why they cast their ballots as they did, and what their political preferences and patterns of participation mean for the future ...

The uproar caused by the statements attributed to Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in which he labeled President-elect Barack Obama and former and current Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice "house Negroes" is fascinating to those of us who consider ourselves Malcolmites ...

The holiday season is here again. But amidst the hustle and bustle of gift-giving and family get-togethers, seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D should carve out time to consider whether they want to stay with their current prescription drug plan.
From Nov. 15 through the end of the year, Medicare is holding its annual "open enrollment" period for Part D ...

Every few generations, there comes an event that, for better or worse, transcends the ordinary and is written, indelibly, in our hearts and minds. At such times, our entire society – sometimes even the whole world – is transfixed, either in horror or in joy, by the singular power and clarity of the moment. Nov. 4, 2008, was one of those moments ...