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

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?

Yelling STOP is not good enough.

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

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.

The world's great and good have criticized the Sri Lankan army for killing civilians during their civil war, but how do you end a war without breaking eggs?

Environmental regulations tend to make the environment worse in other ways, at great expense.

Will Obama defend the West from its enemies as past presidents always have?

England scraps freedom of speech for those who oppose Muslim violence.