We are beginning to see an unholy alliance forming between libel law and a desire to make unpleasant people be quiet.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?

These bridges have needed fixing for 25 years and they're still operating?

The amount of space TIME used trying to mislead us shows how important the court really is.

What can the UAW do with $50 billion?

What is not acceptable, what is a non-starter, is the notion that we can dispense with the law.

Is there a shortage of conflict in the world today, that we need to dredge up past wrongs?