One of the reasons why I love STRATFOR is that its analysis of international relations is succinct and no holds barred. And it's right on the money when it concludes that American forces are under-manned to keep fighting the War on Terror.

Will we see any federal indictments in the coming months over the White House leaking a CIA agent's identity to the press?

Voting is a right of citizenship, even though many of us don't exercise that right. For ex-cons and those in the slammer, however, the franchise is far more precious.

Brooklyn's Franklin Avenue Shuttle is a quaint piece of New York's subway system that refuses to become obsolete.

Here's why Cancun failed, and why a Korean farmer even committed suicide. Forget Willie Nelson and FarmAid. Farm subsidies benefit nobody but big agribusiness.

In light of the drama surrounding Bartlet's use of the 25th Amendment on the West Wing, is it really a good idea for Congress to be in the line of succession?

Former Clintonite Labor Secretary Robert Reich closes his article in the American Prosepct with an interesting notion. Supply-side theory can indeed work - if it's applied toward "human capital" instead of "financial capital".

Plus, you've heard the one about how a butterfly's fart in the Amazon starts a chain-reaction leading to a hurricane in Florida right? Here are more of history's odd twists and turns.