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• Mi abuelita hací­a 'pole dance'

  By Mauricio Gallardo, August 29, 2013 12:14 PM

  La reinvención de esta mujer es admirable. Ella misma, Viviana Morales, abuela argentina de 52 años, explica sus razones: "Comencé a hacer esto a los 44 años, cuando me separé, para salir de un bajón". Esto es la danza del caño, o 'pole dance', una disciplina artística y deportiva que, como el…
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  Wacky Retirement-Related Words You Won't Find in Webster's

  By Heather Nawrocki, August 29, 2013 09:18 AM

  This is a guest post by Jan Cullinane, author of AARP's The Single Woman's Guide to Retirement.
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  50 Years Later, Still a Racial Divide on Jobs

  By Tamara Lytle, August 28, 2013 06:06 PM

  Fifty years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, 60 percent of blacks believe that whites have better chances than they do to get jobs for which they are qualified, a new Gallup poll shows.
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  Meet the Women Fighting a Voter ID Law

  By Lisa McElroy, August 28, 2013 05:51 PM

  The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against the voter ID law in Texas, but two older African American women are behind separate legal challenges to new voter ID requirements in North Carolina. The state has one of the nation's most wide-ranging voter ID laws and the first to pass since the…
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  What Put the Brakes on Medicare Spending?

  By Tamara Lytle, August 28, 2013 01:33 PM

  The Holy Grail in battles over the federal budget has been how to slow down the runaway train of health care spending.
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  The Health Care Law - Look Who's Talking

  By Bill Hogan, August 28, 2013 01:09 PM

  The public's most trusted sources of information about the Affordable Care Act - Obamacare, as many Americans know it - aren't necessarily the ones they're most likely to be hearing from.
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  Transiciones

  Hoy vuela mi hermana Susana a Miami. Me la imagino en el avión o atravesando el aeropuerto, decidida, tranquila, eficiente. Ha llegado a ayudar a mudar a mamá a casa de nuestra hermana menor. Es un paso que si bien algún día sabíamos que llegaría, no deja de sentirse.
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  Facing the Enemy Within

  By Al Martinez, August 28, 2013 09:30 AM

  I was telling my wife Cinelli about a Carole King album called Tapestry I had purchased online when I was stopped by the word "album." I couldn't say it. I said "alume" and "abul" and "alome," but not "album." It just wouldn't come out.
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  Blood Test May Help Find Ovarian Cancer Early

  By Candy Sagon, August 28, 2013 08:00 AM

  Hopes for a screening test that could detect ovarian cancer early - something that has eluded the fight against this lethal disease - were boosted this week with results from an important new study.
• State Pensions - A Loophole for Lobbyists

  By Bill Hogan, August 27, 2013 04:41 PM

  In many places you can get a state government pension without even working for the state government.