What does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

A chain of progression - one leads to the next, then the next...

There's no simple cure for loneliness, but there is a simple answer to the #2 question, "Why are men such couch potatoes?" What does a man want more of that he could have more of if he were in better shape?

Will there be unity in Iraq? Saddam proved that fear can unite Iraqis enough to get them to stop killing each other, but it's not clear that anything less will do the job.

China and India are adopting personal automobiles. If they follow our path, each country will put itself in a position of its entire economy being vulnerable to interruption of its oil supplies.

There aren't any really poor people in America.

Barack Obama's people joined my social network and asked, "How can government help small businesses?" The answer's extremely simple, but nobody wants to hear it.

If we're going to talk about "nation building," it would be extremely helpful to define the word "nation."

A great deal of the disunity between Bin Laden and America is based on differing perceptions of how men and women ought to get along. It's difficult to reconcile his view of women with American customs.

If we can't decide between the bird lovers and the cat lovers without a jury trial, how are we going to decide what to do about "honor killing," "female circumcision," and other facets of "diversity"?