A new rule broadens the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder, allowing non-combat veterans to receive disability benefits for being traumatized by events they did not actually experience.

At this juncture, blunt questions need to be asked about whether sanctions can work on Iran and if we can live with a nuclear Iran.

The Pickens Plan to convert the nation's truck fleet to natural gas contains a clear justification for government involvement--standard setting that the private market cannot do by itself.

Over the last hundred years, psychiatry has taken very different perspectives on war stress.

Veterans diagnosed with major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder,or any other anxiety disorder stemming from military activity need to be treated as well as compensated.

Review of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman.

If Iraq is a lesson in using coalitions of the willing, the lesson may be that they can work--but that America cannot afford them.

The difficulties of forming ad hoc international coalitions for military operations may lead the United States to rely in the future upon associations like the North Atlantic Treat Organization.