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Violent crime is up across the country — and voters are fed up. But why is it so difficult to find solutions?

An examination of billing policies and practices at more than 500 hospitals across the country shows widespread reliance on aggressive collection tactics.

Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.

Recently in the online magazine Salon, journalist Helen Benedict chronicled allegations of sexual abuse by female members of the U.S. military in Iraq. Benedict discusses her findings, and Spc. Mickiela Montoya, who served in the National Guard in Iraq, describes her experience.

We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.

David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, mixes fantasy and literary fiction in a decades-spanning saga of ordinary people who get caught up in a war between two factions of ancient near-immortals.

Excerpt: 'Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer'

The rapper's third album is a string of prickly songs that spend more time exposing his neuroses than truly analyzing them.

As a crisis continues to grip Venezuela, millions of its citizens have fled to Colombia and the city of Medellín, where many find a progressive reputation little more than an empty promise.

On Tuesday night, finalists for the National Book Awards read from their nominated works at The New School in New York City. The National Book Foundation will announce the winners Wednesday night.