By twisting the arms of freshman Democrats nearly out of their sockets, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at the end of the day, managed to eke out passage of HR 3962, her health care reform bill. But her five-vote…

[with Joan Robinson, Assistant Editor at the Population Research Institute]

On the morning of 2 October 2009, one of us (Joan) joined an audience of mostly health professionals and listened as Dr. Diane Harper, the leading international developer of the HPV…

I am not a big fan of reality TV.  My tastes run instead to EWTN, FOX News and—because I travel a lot and have a farm—The Weather Channel.  But the news that D-Health reality-show stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar…

The opening sentence of the Lancet1 article paints a grim picture. The normally staid British medical journal reports on a new health threat that “will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of…

Politically motivated panels rarely produce good science, and the report of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development, and Reproductive Health of the U.K. Parliament is no exception. The report, Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon…

Our own Colin Mason is back from China. His week-long undercover investigation revealed fresh abuses in China’s One-Child policy and new proof of the U.N. Population Fund’s complicity in these abuses. Remember that the UNFPA has been in China since…

With far more men than women, China’s sex imbalance has already reached epic proportions. But a new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) suggests that the problem is only going to get worse.

The study, published on April 10th…

Barack Obama’s first act as president was not, as he had promised, to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). This misbegotten piece of legislation was not waiting on his desk when he entered the Oval Office. The Congress had…

If you’re old enough, you may remember the 1958 novel called The Ugly American. Or perhaps you saw the 1963 movie by the same name, starring Marlon Brando. The “uglies” in the novel were arrogant and ignorant American aid workers…

Obama’s transition team is busily preparing a thick sheaf of Executive Orders for the President-elect to sign the day he takes office.  And — in a reprise of what happened when Bill Clinton took power 16 years ago — the…