Doctors, lawyers and soldiers have to prove that they’re mentally competent to do their jobs. Should the president? That’s what Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, proposed on Tuesday, when ...

In March 1995, I sat in the House of Representatives listening to 70-year-old Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, give a remarkable speech against term limits. Hyde, a giant of a man at 6-foot-3, ...

The average age of physicians is on the rise: According to the American Medical Association, about 42 percent of the nation’s physicians are more than 55 years old and 21 percent are older than 65.