China won the war on drugs. Now it's losing it again. Why?

The concept of the flushing toilet is "unsustainable"?!

It doesn't so much matter who, specifically, is the leader of any given country.

The appointment of Hillary Clinton to the office of Secretary of State would be probably the best news we could hope for from the new Obama administration.

What lost my vote was that the Republican party left me and left many conservatives out.

If the Republican party doesn't stand for anything different than the Democrats, what good is it?

No child has any choice in the matter. But an adult does.

Any deviation from the official party line is a threat to absolute power, and deviation must be squelched by fair means or foul.

To keep the climate stable, earth has developed various adjustment mechanisms.

Why have the Chinese invested so much effort and resources winning influence with various African governments?