About 60 percent of Americans - 175 million people - now live in communities that restrict smoking in public places.

On Nov. 3, voters in St. Louis County can add the county’s nearly 1 million residents to the list by voting…

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was on a roll.
“Nothing makes me more angry … than the suggestion that America does not already have the finest health care in the world,” the Senate minority leader said Monday at a forum in…

And now for something completely different: An emotion-free issue raised in the health reform debate.
It starts with a deceptively simple question. We all trust our doctors to recommend what is best when we get sick. But how does your doctor…

Thousands of Illinois residents suffer from pain, nausea, muscle rigidity and other symptoms associated with serious illness. If lawmakers had the power to relieve their suffering — at no cost to taxpayers — why wouldn’t they do it?
Last week, House…