In the last 10 years, the number of heroin-related overdoses nearly quadruple.

Increasingly large attacks are made possible by the so-called internet of things.

Wells Fargo reports that over the last five years it has terminated 5,300 employees for “inappropriate sales conduct.” Not one of the bank’s top managers received a pink slip.

Support for the death penalty has slipped to just below 50 percent, its lowest level in 40 years.

The United States needs to restore a particular kind of politics as usual.

India, one of the top international destinations for couples hoping to hire women as surrogates for pregnancy, is poised to ban the practice in most cases.

Change, however slow, will be welcome when it comes.

The shock defeat was officially by less than a single percentage point.