The government safety net was created to keep Americans from abject poverty, but the poorest households no longer receive a majority of government benefits.
More civilian contractors working for American companies than American soldiers died in Afghanistan last year for the first time, and some survivors are left uncompensated.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said a compromise offered by President Obama on birth control coverage did not go far enough in protecting religious liberty.
Kabul holds many glimpses of its Soviet past hidden in plain sight around its jumbled hillsides sobering artifacts that now confront the United States and its allies as they begin pondering what their own legacy might be.
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers form a sort of power couple in economics. Theyre the go-to pair on financial issues of marriage, divorce and child-rearing.
Jeremy Lin struggled to his fifth consecutive 20-point game on 8-for-24 shooting, but made the second of two foul shots for the go-ahead point with 4.9 seconds to play.
Discovered just three months ago, an e-mail from June 2008 sent to James Murdoch discussed in frank terms the potentially disastrous scale of phone hacking at News International.
With encampments largely gone, the challenge is to keep the Occupy cause alive through methods like strikes and protests, which risk alienating people rather than galvanizing them.
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