Unlocking "unconventional" energy requires unconventional politics, and that's one resource that is genuinely scarce among today's backwards-looking bureaucrats and green interest groups.

What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

So what happened at the Iowa straw poll? Winner George Bush called it "a festival of democracy," which sounds about right.

There is one country that is always a target of protest, and it is the target at this year's Toronto International Film Festival: the state of Israel.

Is India a weak link in what used to be called the global war on terror?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby.

The return of cricket diplomacy raises an intriguing question: How can India use its considerable soft power--its dominance of South Asian sport, movies, music, television and publishing--to address the rise of fundamentalism in Pakistan?

Science has become political, but too few politicians and citizens are well-versed in science. Even though science and technology will be the focus of many of the challenges facing the next president, there has been little discussion of any of these issues in the campaign thus far. Mr. Krauss will...