And that's the point, really. If captured alive, terrorists pose political problems for Obama. Where do we put them? How do we interrogate them? And, most pressingly, how do we try them? I don't think those are tough questions. But Obama does. So he prefers to kill these people outright, avoiding the questions altogether.

When or if dedicated anti-BPA campaigners yield to the emerging science remains to be seen. Let's hope the OEHHA has the wisdom and courage to base its decision on science rather than on a narrow interpretation of Proposition 65.

Mr O'Sullivan fails to make the basic point that, whatever form an Irish public debt restructuring might take, it would at best be only a partial solution to the country's public finance problem.

Vladimir Putin will likely run for president of Russia in 2012; Dmitri Medvedev faces a stark dilemma: be a Khrushchev or a Gorbachev?

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Medvedev have widely contrasting visions of Russia's future, making it all but inconceivable that Putin would sit out the next presidential race.

Innovative licensing agreements between Western and Indian drug companies are leading to sustainable profits and increased access to quality medicines.

Science is telling us that ethnic diversity causes significant problems by diminishing valuable social capital. What then should we do about it?

Can the frayed relationship between the United States and Turkey be repaired?