To sell, novels must be plausible - so popular fiction reflects prevailing worldviews.

...or, Who Gets the Liver?

Of patents, copyrights, and the balance of power.

Wasting millions on buying newfangled equipment, storing it for some years, and then junking it unused? Must be the TSA!

Whatever happened to "No new taxes"?

Why do Americans bother to be a superpower? What's in it for them?

Why aren't Republicans willing to fight for what they claim to believe?

Why some politicians might welcome a swine flu pandemic.

Tim Geither did not fool the Chinese. He seems to have fooled most Americans though.

Yelling STOP is not good enough.