Successfully translating scientific discoveries requires a sense of urgency, which some disease foundations seem to have, and many big pharmas appear to need. Patients waiting expectantly for medical research to produce important new cures are finding bad news almost everywhere they turn.

The identification of a liberal political method allows us to separate the positives aspects of liberalism from its historical manifestations, in order to direct them in different political cultures, which can become a strong common denominator to be spent in the concrete political activity.

Understanding that race and culture are not the same thing is the first step to recognizing that not all cultures are the same and that not all cultures can be cohabitants.

Without profound changes in the scientific and regulatory environment, things will remain very tough for the agile disruptor -- relatively good news for established giants, presumably less good news for patients and for progress.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

What is historically distinct about U.S. power is that it has quite remarkably enabled the spread of human liberty and representative government, through time and across cultures.

Until recently, the idea that public libraries should peddle unfettered access to hardcore porn would have baffled almost everyone. Did the First Amendment change with the invention of the Internet?

With slowing economic growth, a publicly feuding cabinet, and a series of corruption scandals that have paralyzed governance, you might think the last thing India needs is a foreign policy mishap. But there's no other way to characterize New Delhi's full-throated support for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's dangerous grandstanding at the United Nations in pursuit of statehood.