A jihadist in plain sight in Lahore makes the most-wanted list.

The Khalajis represent the fathers and sons and mothers and daughters of Iran.

The UK prime minister's call to cut aid over gay rights is a play to a domestic audience.

There is a Russian saying, lyod tronulsya, which means the winter ice on the river has cracked and begun to move, that things have begun to change deeply and significantly. This is what's happening in today's Russia.

The recent kidnapping of a handicapped French woman from a Kenyan resort, initially attributed to Somali pirates, was the second such kidnapping in a month. Kenyan authorities now blame al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda. Why should we treat the growing menace of Somali piracy differently from terrorism?

It is difficult to create and sustain a decent society when many of its members are former convicts.

The imprisonment of Mahmoud Salehi marks acceleration in the Iranian government's fight against independent labor.

You cannot make an argument about the cost of prisons without taking into account the benefit of prisons.