While adding “in bed” may make bland comments amusing, adding “like Steve Jobs” doesn’t make dumb ideas interesting or executable.

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez told a gathering of regional heads of government in Caracas on Saturday that, “Roger Noriega wants me to die.” That’s not quite true. Even less true is Chávez’s unbelievable assertion that four rounds of chemotherapy left him “without a single carcinogenic cell” in his body.

North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, who passed away at the age of 69, has bequeathed a legacy of poverty and starvation to the country's subject population, and a highly uncertain future to his nominal legatees, the Communist royals of his dynastic police state.

With all the criticisms flying, not enough attention gets focused on what Rumsfeld did right during the momentous half-decade after 9/11.

Steven F. Hayward, author of "The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989," answers questions on the policies and life of Ronald Reagan.

At The Chronicle of Higher Education, “journalistic standards” are of the double kind. And incivility is a firing offense — unless you’re criticizing a conservative, in which case nasty smears are all the rage

The Sunshine Policy, an effort to engage North Korea initially implemented under South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, appears increasingly ineffective in light of North Korea's continued nuclear threat and oppression of its people.