Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

As NATO summits go, this weekend's meeting of the alliance's members in Chicago may be memorable if only for being the least memorable one in recent history. Of course, quiet summits are not necessarily bad summits. 

The U.S. government seems to have no plan to stop Julian Assange, the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massively successful effort to disclose secret or classified information.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.

After the Euro hit an all-time high against the dollar, some in Europe are becoming concerned.

The North Korean nuclear test is sparking fundamental changes in Japanese defense policy.

Nationalistic competition between Japan and China could undermine progress on economic and security concerns in East Asia. U.S. diplomacy has an important role in preventing that.