Alan Khazei should get his seat.

You can't stop either. Why that's good.

Germany is no strutting colossus.

The idiocy of axing older employees.

Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.

Why Neanderthals went extinct.

How much can governments borrow?

Al Gore's views on climate change are advancing as rapidly as the phenomenon itself.

A reality that's still within reach.

Climate-change legislation that doesn't add up.

Investors are bidding up stocks, gold, and oil to dizzying heights. It's déja vu all over again.

Politicians won't get us back into the space race, but novelists just might.

A new book promises incontrovertible proof of the afterlife. That's cold comfort to those of us left behind.