Like Vietnam, will the Afghanistan War drive a stake through the heart of President Barack Obama’s ambitious domestic program?

Last week, I inadvertently found myself back in second grade. This is how it happened.

What we need now is a new transatlantic alliance — a transatlantic alliance from below — that can bring us to this Europe 3.0.

What the Japanese elections mean for the country’s foreign policy.

if we’re going to outsource, we should outsource to the experts. The Chinese.

When celebrities say stupid things in public or get nabbed for shoplifting, their agents shift into overdrive. The same thing happens to countries that get nailed in public for their horrendous human rights abuses.

Young people who want to receive phone calls but don’t want their teachers or parents to catch on can download high-frequency “mosquito” ringtones. After a certain age, the older set loses its ability to hear these higher frequency tones. In this way, older people literally become tone deaf to the way younger people communicate. Talk about resonant metaphors.

Our new king’s armor is starting to get tarnished.

For the last decade, highway fatalities in the United States remained relatively constant, at 42,000 deaths a year. Every year, in other words, we lose more people on American roads than we did in the three-year-long Korean War.