The Spitzer scandal has brought up a number of demographic surprises about prostitution.

The group known as Acorn found itself at the center of a media storm last week, when two young filmmakers exposed the willingness of workers at several of its offices to offer assistance to a nascent prostitution ring.

On December 2, rioters allegedly stirred up by preachers at Friday prayers rampaged through Zakho, destroying a controversial massage parlor before moving on to torch several liquor shops and hotels. In retaliation, a mob of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) activists attacked the local office of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) and KIU media offices in nearby Duhok and Semel.

In the aftermath of the midterm election, President Obama has claimed that he got all of the policies right, but his self-exonerating narrative is simply wrong.

Somali pirates have evolved from a small group of bandits into a sophisticated global organization with hijackers, investors, guards, professional negotiators and money laundering agents working in tandem. This efficiency has made it very difficult to counter the threat of piracy but targeting financers and negotiators is part of a more proactive strategy being adopted by the United States.

While Eliot Spitzer is gone, the overreaching tactics by which he made his name as a prosecutor are not.

Unchecked, HIV and AIDS will continue to spread through Islamic countries. No longer a matter of humanitarian assistance, the pandemicis nowan importantglobal security issue.

Banking centers must offer their clients security; Dubai's banking sector could exist only because it was backed by an implicit security guarantee from the United States.