Maryland lawyer Dana Moylan Wright was trapped in a vicious cycle. The more her work piled up, the less she wanted to do it. ...more

October 5, 2008

Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Illinois Sen. Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks - many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles. ...more

September 23, 2008

WASHINGTON - Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks - many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles. ...more

September 20, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - As far as Dave O'Neill is concerned, the whole FairTax business was hatched in some Capitol Hill cloakroom as a distraction for what really ails this country, which includes - but is not limited to - insurance companies' failure to pay legitimate claims. ...more

August 22, 2008

Countering the prevailing theory that aging is the accumulation of wear and tear in cells, scientists studying worms have found that aging might be hard-wired, a sort of unintentional sabotage by genes gone wild. ...more

July 26, 2008

Six states are getting the OK to write their own prescriptions for ailing schools under the Bush administration's signature education law. ...more

July 2, 2008

Friday is payday at KIPP DC: KEY Academy, and some sixth-grade girls gather at the makeshift school store trying to decide how to spend their hard-earned money. ...more

June 27, 2008

When Gaither High's Brendan Domaracki signed a baseball scholarship with Stanford University, some people had questions. ...more

June 14, 2008

Schools, under pressure to boost student achievement, are offering incentives - field trips and cash, for example - to motivate students. ...more

June 13, 2008

Most people read their college alumni magazines for the class notes, immediately flipping to the back to see who was married, had a baby or was promoted to an envy-inducing job. The columns tend to be meatiest at this time of year - class reunion season. ...more

June 13, 2008