House Republicans have broken the hugely successful spectrum auction authorization first effected in 1993 and also delayed for many years any possibility that digital broadcast spectrum that is almost entirely unused can be repurposed to serve the growing demands for wireless broadband.

Again an older technology has been improved and adapted to fill a need while government dithers.The old technology in this case is buses.

The recent announcement that India will make available a $35 laptop to students seems impressive at first blush, the new technology will not make a huge educational difference in the long run and may even cause more harm than good.

Some soldiers have chosen to pass their time in the most traditional way imaginable--through the appreciation of the natural environment that surrounds them.

India has long experienced terrorism--usually from isolated ethnic insurgencies in remote parts of the country. More recent attacks--including in Mumbai in 2008--are being committed by urban, middle-class jihadists, often with the tacit support of Pakistan.

F. Duane Ackerman, chairman and chief executive officer of BellSouth Corporation, assesses the future of telecommunications reform in the United States.

In the "graveyard of empires," we are fighting a war we can win.

George Soros's fame rests not on his political commitments, but on his achievements as "the world's greatest money manager" and open-handed benefactor of the former Soviet bloc.