Americans are worried about the fine print in the health care overhaul, an Associated Press poll says, and those concerns are creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to overcome doubts in Congress. ...more

November 16, 2009

Almost 40 percent of the nation's 18- to 24-year-olds in 2008 were enrolled in college, a record number, according to a Pew Research Center report released last week. The rise was driven almost entirely by a surge in students attending community colleges. ...more

November 1, 2009

Is journalism dying or is it on the verge of being reborn? Are we witnessing the end of newspapers, local TV and local radio news? ...more

April 1, 2009

The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry. ...more

March 20, 2009

You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and have dreams. One dream many share is that Americans will give up their love affair with suburban sprawl and will rediscover denser, more environmentally friendly, less auto-dependent ways of living. ...more

February 21, 2009

Despite the nation's reputation as a rootless society, only about one in 10 Americans moved in the last year - roughly half the proportion that changed residences as recently as four decades ago, census data show. ...more

January 7, 2009

I have dreams. I may seem like a boring pundit whose most exotic fantasies involve GAO reports, but deep down, I have dreams. ...more

November 9, 2008

Barack Obama is galloping away with the presidential race. Or maybe he has a modest lead. Or maybe he and John McCain are neck and neck. ...more

October 24, 2008

Zack Turner, a University of South Florida senior, says most of his friends don't follow political news, but they watch shows like "Saturday Night Live," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Daily Show" religiously. ...more

October 9, 2008

Mexicans working in other countries are sending less money home, threatening businesses, stalling construction and choking cash flow to hamlets where as much as half the population works in the United States. ...more

August 7, 2008