To American eyes, the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan, it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and simmering ethnic tensions that have...

On the eve of graduation, reflecting on life after education “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it,” my mom told me when I was being an obnoxious little smartass. With this in mind, I’m...

A shrinking base, a high-profile defection skillfully managed by the other side, an idiotic delight at how the party is becoming “purer” — that’s the GOP today. And to British ears, it all sounds...

Offering more night classes is the latest scheme UI officials are putting in place in an effort to keep students from having fun. At least, that’s how some students see the move. While policymakers...

Emileigh: I’ve heard, through anonymous groans on our comment board lately, that some readers think my column doesn’t talk about serious enough topics. Of course, this is tricky, since, as the editor,...

By the end of the week, we’ll probably know whom President Obama plans to nominate as retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s successor. With all respect to the crack economic team the...

People are scared. That seems to be the nominal American mindset these days. What are we all so nervous about? Oh, my. It wouldn’t be so difficult to compile a list of terrors, it would just be redundant....

When I’m not here, making a strange face in the upper right corner of this page, it’s entirely possible you could find me at my other place of employment, the venerable L&M Mighty Shop. While...

“I don’t want to run auto companies,” President Obama said last week. “I’m not an auto engineer. I don’t know how to create an affordable, well-designed plug-in hybrid.” To those of us who...

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 —...

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 —...

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...