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

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

What does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

A chain of progression - one leads to the next, then the next...

How can you take action in a rational way if you won't even take the time to understand the issue you're incensed about?

There's no simple cure for loneliness, but there is a simple answer to the #2 question, "Why are men such couch potatoes?" What does a man want more of that he could have more of if he were in better shape?

Will there be unity in Iraq? Saddam proved that fear can unite Iraqis enough to get them to stop killing each other, but it's not clear that anything less will do the job.

Virtually everyone who is anyone in American politics and media has roundly condemned any thought that Iran's President Ahmadinejad should be allowed to desecrate Ground Zero with his noisome presence. They are making a mistake.

There aren't any really poor people in America.