The Miami Herald

... be reformed,'' said Elizabeth Carpenter, associate policy director of the New America Foundation's Health Policy Center...

In early September, Colombia's biggest businesses surprised everyone by declaring their wholehearted support for the country's president, Alvaro Uribe, in his deepening conflict with Venezuela. If they lost the huge export market next door, well, that would simply be too bad.

Changes in the loan program will "save a big chunk of money,'' said Marc Goldwein, the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ...

Ellen Seidman ran the federal Office of Thrift Supervision from 1997 to 2001, which oversaw savings and loans. She writes in The Ladder, a blog at the New America Foundation, that ``while many of us warned against bad subprime lending before the turn ...

''At the end of the day, the environment doesn't care if we are earnest or not,'' said Sonia Hamel, a climate action specialist from the United Kingdom.

Jorge Castañeda, former Mexican foreign minister, calls it an ''ad hoc'' grouping with Latin American countries befriending Cuba ''out of conviction or ...

"The next president is just not going to have the money to meet his promises," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget-research group.

Before it became a celebration of summer's end, Labor Day was a symbol of reform--a time, said labor activist Samuel Gompers, to discuss rights and wrongs and make the worker 'stronger for it.' In the true spirit of the holiday, Americans who care about children and families should first resolve to improve the imperiled state of the nation's child-welfare workers.

Sensational cases of child abuse and neglect have kept the spotlight on the failures of state child-welfare agencies… more