As angry exchanges take place outside, the President engages in a polite town hall meeting, albeit with heartfelt worries from the audience

Simply paying Taliban gunmen to stay out of the fight could save a fortune in U.S. blood and treasure.Outrageous as that may sound, it worked in Iraq

Cataloging the key events of the past week

American John Yettaw, whose nighttime visit to Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi earned him four years hard labor in a Burmese prison, will be one of millions to endure a forced-labor stint

In recent years, irreverent bloggers and books have celebrated the “three-martini playdate.” A horrifying car crash has ended all that

The Chino prison riots are only a symptom of the system’s very deep problems, exacerbated by overcrowding, a budget crisis and a failure to set priorities

In her book The Philosophical Baby, psychologist Alison Gopnik says babies are learning and developing much faster than most people realize

The casino town bet big on the real estate boom — and lost. But the rapid reset of home, hotel-room and casino prices has encouraged some in America’s most optimistic city to go right back to the table

The author of The Cheese Chronicles talks to TIME about a familiar food product on the verge of wider discovery

Hitting children for bad behavior is still not uncommon in American schools — although it is banned in prisons