David Kilcullen is no soft-headed peacenik. He’s a beefy, 41-year-old former Australian army officer who served in Iraq as a top adviser to U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus. He’s one of the counterinsurgency...

Yikes. (We’re all going to die of swine flu.) (Or not. Who can tell these days? Those are just the kind of days we have, these days.) (But with all the swine-flu hysteria in the last week or so —...

People with runny noses, congestion, or a bad cough can be a common sight in spring. Along with sunnier days, the occasional rainy day, and warmer temperatures, spring allergies are a rite of passage —...