Mexico City students return to school during the swine flu outbreak in May.

It doesn’t take a severe pandemic — or even much of a disease outbreak — to overwhelm America’s public health system.
That’s an important lesson highlighted in a pair…

In 2005, corporate America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax — zero — that year?
Taxpaying Americans — scraping to…

Let us see if we have this straight: The U.S. government this year is running a $389 billion deficit and borrowing from abroad to finance it.
In addition, we’re spending roughly $100 billion a year — and sacrificing scores of American lives…

Disturbing new evidence emerged last week that the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to provide shoddy mental health care for soldiers and Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lack of effective screening, delayed care and denied diagnoses add up to a…

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

Remember the Republican Contract With America? President George W. Bush apparently didn’t when he cut eligibility for children’s health insurance last fall.

Mr. Bush acted unilaterally to change rules of the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP. He…