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In his latest book, the author of Beautiful Boy describes a new way of treating substance addiction and related mental illnesses. "What we know now is that addicts aren't immoral, they aren't weak," he says. "They're ill."

As soon as I walked into the meeting room at Biogen Idec, I knew I was in a powerhouse of personalities. More than 50 leaders from San Diego's technology companies, foundations, universities, and school systems were there by invitation for lunch and to talk about a San Diego problem. At issue: how to maintain a flourishing science and technology sector in a San Diego

The petroleum industry worries that the focus on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will lead to more restrictions. Environmentalists are concerned that it's overshadowing other problems with oil and gas production.

Is it naive to believe that improved Internet access can help open up truly autocratic regimes like North Korea? Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of The New Digital Age, say the power of information is underrated.

With President Obama's defeat of Mitt Romney, the Republican Party finds itself in the same place it was four years ago -- once again coming up short in its attempt to win the most powerful office in American democracy.

The Latino Decisions study finds Hispanics care more about economic issues, and not moral topics, when they cast ballots.

Debate Rages On How to Treat PTSD, the Signature Wound of This War

Most Americans think of prejudice as animosity toward people in other groups. But two psychologists argue that unconscious bias — often in the form of giving some people special treatment — is the way prejudice largely works in America today.

San Diego Unified School District is piloting classes for students who have spent years in U.S. schools without mastering English.

It's not as elegant as some languages, but neither is it as impenetrable as, say, an economics textbook or the iTunes user agreement.