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

...or, Who Gets the Liver?

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

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.

Yelling STOP is not good enough.

East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet... minds.

Can you bribe all of the people all of the time?

Sooner or later you have to stand up to madmen - and as costly as that is, it only gets more costly the longer you wait.