Iraq, Global Warming, and the Meaning of Life

What do the Arabs do when they run out of water , the Guardian is asking. Good question. One of the problems of autocracies is that they fo...

Maersk has announced plans to build the largest container ships ever , and in the process reduce their carbon emissions by 50% per container...

Somali pirates have killed four Americans and our armed forces have captured about 15 of them alive. Now what? This isn't a difficult ...

So the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington DC have a deal. The Democrats get to extend unemployment benefits. The Republicans get...

According to the Christian Science Monitor , the bombs from Yemen indicate that the bomb makers are amateurs and may be trying in a "fo...

In today's New York Times, Thomas Friedman contrasts the attitudes of China and America to global warming, and smiles approvingly on th...

I've been trying to figure out just what the issue is. "Tit" is the pronunciation, although the usual spelling is "teat,...

It was not a smart political decision for President Obama to take any position on the building of an Islamic center near Ground Zero in New ...

The people who count things for the media are now saying that the Pakistan floods are going to be worse than three previous mega disasters ...