Teddy's Rightful Heir

Alan Khazei should get his seat.

Gay Marriage & Marijuana

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

Misplaced Fears

Germany is no strutting colossus.

Fired is the New Retired

The idiocy of axing older employees.

The Lost Decade

Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.

Survival of the Weakest

Why Neanderthals went extinct.

Up Against a Wall of Debt

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.