It didn't take much conviction to decide Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had to go after the Egyptian military turned on him.  Ditto for Libya’s Muammar Qadhafi, once large portions of the country had freed themselves from his rule and our European allies were clamoring for military intervention.  But when the outcome is in doubt, as in Syria, Barack Obama is sitting on the fence.

The kind of design thinking championed by Steve Jobs--human-centered, iterative, and practical--can fix more than just our gadgets.

Why Iowa? Nothing in the Constitution says that Iowa gets to vote for president before any other state. It just does.

Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Understandably, the country wants its elected representatives to address the nation's fiscal crisis. But in doing so, will it be creating a crisis on the national security front?

Doubts about Prime Minister Kan's leadership are growing. He will be judged by how he responded to the earthquake and how he positions Japan to emerge as strongly as possible from the disaster.

The Obama administration should act multilaterally to bring humanitarian relief, suspend diplomatic relations, and work with local authorities in Libya's liberated cities.

The major cause of the financial crisis in the U.S. was the collapse of housing and mortgage markets resulting from an accumulation of an unprecedented number of weak and risky Non-Traditional Mortgages.