In 1985, the U.S. military replaced the Colt .45 with the lighter Beretta M9 9mm, but are rethinking the smaller-caliber pistol because of its limited "stopping power."
Sanctions often hurt the innocent inside sanctioned nations as well as nearby trading partners, and are only effective if they are multinational and well policed.
Jefferson is often quoted as a champion of religious freedom, but, says one critic, he "tried harder than any other Founding Father to remove religion definitively from the political life of the new nation."
Vancouver has become a Mecca for urban dwellers, so much so that it is losing its business tax base.
Futures trading--that odd engine of global capitalism where traders speculate on everything from interest rates to the price of wheat--barely survived its birth, more than a century ago.
When Australia eliminated its estate tax, deaths declined just before the repeal took effect. Could the same thing happen in America?
The defining feature of food in the early republic became the elevation of the simple American over the fancy European.
Americans have fewer people to confide in than they did just a generation ago.
A noted demographer says that the nation's official measure of poverty is biased, flawed, and inconsistent with almost every other gauge of well-being.