This week an Agriculture Department study showed that 16.4 million U.S. households containing 49.1 million people experienced “food insecurity” in 2008, up from 12.2 million households containing 36.2 million people in 2007.

President Obama's trip to China has occasioned a spate of articles documenting the increasingly unhappy, yet apparently indissoluble, marriage between the American and Chinese economies.

After taking his message as the “first Pacific president” through four countries in eight days, President Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and a planned visit to U.S. troops stationed in the shadow of nuclear-armed North Korea.

President Obama has emerged from his first trip to China with few breakthroughs on important issues, such as Iran's nuclear program or China's currency.

President Obama's central message to the Chinese government and people during his first visit there as president has been a remarkably positive one.

When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic.

The U.S. and Chinese economies — the world's largest and the fastest-growing major economy, respectively — have become inextricably intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy, but which for the moment neither will move to break.

Our company, J.P. Morgan Chase, employs more than 220,000 people, serves well over 100 million customers, lends hundreds of millions of dollars each day and has operations in nearly 100 countries.

When President Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed presidents since Richard M. Nixon first visited Mao Zedong in 1972: How exactly does the United States define its relationship with China?

The historic political transition under way in Tokyo is rattling Washington and has produced a puzzling rigidity in an administration known for its capacity for reaching out to the world. President Obama's visit to Asia offers a much-needed opportunity to calm and energize the U.S.-Japan relationship.