It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

Secretary of State Colin Powell says the U.S. cannot accept the Ukraine election result as legitimate and called for an investigation. He warned that if there is no investigation, there could be implications for U.S. relations with Ukraine.

If the US practices dollar diplomacy, will these nations become part of a coalition of conscience or coercion?

Is there a new front opening in the Cold War between Russia and the United States?This is not a good time for a summit meeting, with both countries expelling 50 of each other's diplomats in the middle of what some say is the worst spy scandal ever between the two nations.

Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

This event is the first in a series of four campaign-season seminars on the critical issues of U.S. foreign and defense policy.