Most Americans still believed they were safe behind their Atlantic and Pacific moats. But…

A. The Price of World Peace By PETER BEINART

Omar Bongo Ondimba, president of Gabon, died on June 8th, aged 73

Weak firms need to exit the market, either by going bust or being sold to another firm, or the whole business environment gets stifled.

What Japan needs is more bankruptcies, not fewer

This generation of Kims does not look promising, and that is great news.

North Korea's dictator is on the way out take aim at his successor

But, if it is ever to live up to its potential, Brazil needs to keep reforming its schools, bearing down on the teaching unions and spending more on basic education.

At the moment Sao Paulo's teachers are striking over a proposal to make new recruits take tests before they start work to ensure they are qualified;

Brazil's woeful schools, more than perhaps anything else, are what hold it back. They are improvingbut too slowly

At 50, men and women should be screened for colorectal cancer.

The road to wellness begins in childhood and twists and turns over time.

I think the problem now is that the adults just totally unleash their anxieties on their children.

What's the goal of raising kids? It's to produce an independent, autonomous adult, right? It doesn't happen overnight.

They are the products of parental anxiety and all the lumps and bumps have been taken out of life for them, so they have no idea how to manage the normal vicissitudes of life.

'They're well-groomed, with new shirts and shiny shoes, when there are more than a million malnourished children nobody worries about,'

A murder foretold has convulsed Guatemala's government. Its investigation will provide a test of whether or not Central America includes a failed state

Doctors still don't know what causes vestibular dysfunction or why it is so common.

why did Britain have such high wages and cheap energy in the first place?

Why Britain got there first

Perhaps the most complicated part of the conversationbeyond all the issues of race and class and culture, the growing pressures to succeed and arguments over how success should be definedis the problem of memory.

Teachers in schools with economically and ethnically diverse populations face a different set of challenges in working with parents.

say that here again, parents can have double standards: Push hard, but not too hardmaintain discipline, but don't punish my child.

At the deepest level, teachers fear that all this parental anxiety is not always aimed at the stuff that matters.

Parents seeking to stay on top of what's happening in class don't have to wait for the report card to arrive.

Parents understandably argue that there is a good reason to keep a close watch if their child is one of 500 kids in a grade level.

it's in the nature of parents to want to smooth out the bumps in the road.

Parents are passionate, protective creatures when it comes to their children, as nature designed them to be