As Congress, Republican presidential candidates, and much of the U.S., South American, and European media are sounding the alarm on suspicious activities by Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, the State Department is hitting the snooze button.

Yet another food scandal is gripping China--tons of melamine-contaminated milk products were seized from warehouses in Chongqing. The milk problem is the the tenth serious food scandal in just the past few years. It provides more evidence of the inability of China's officials, corporations, and consumers to prevent lethal production.

The legal fallout in India after the Satyam scandalshould notmimic the United Statesafter Enron.

The New York Times rattled energy markets this week with a Sunday front page story asserting that many "insiders" in the natural gas industry harbor serious doubts about the long-term viability of the natural gas market.

Can changes be made to the system in order to avoid another scandal like the one involving the firing of eight U.S. attorneys?

The oil-for-food scandal will stimulate reform. But the U.N. that will emerge is unlikely to escape corruption and hypocrisy or, more important, be faithful to its founding purposes.

Overly zealous efforts to eliminate fraud in AIDS treatment will only waste more aid than is saved.

Drugs donated to developing countries are being stolen by criminal groups, which harms patients, encourages criminal networks, and probably leads to dangerous counterfeiting.