The Israeli government’s decision to deploy Iron Dome (a mobile short-range missile defense system) in Haifa for the first time may or may not be tied to concerns about a chemical weapon attack emanating from Syria.

It is appropriate for France to take the lead role in its former African colony of Mali against Islamic extremists there.

A report that the Chinese military may have been responsible for an attempt to hack into computers at The New York Times should bring the dangers of international cybercrime back to the public policy forefront.

Gov. Paul LePage’s State of the State speech is still a few days away, and, although the overall content is unknown, one thing that we are sure it will contain will be an impassioned call for domestic violence prevention.

The life lessons the Boy Scouts of America teach their members don’t exactly jibe with the organization’s longtime policy of discriminating against gays. A Boy Scout “seeks to understand others. He respects those with ideas and customs other than his own,” says the Scout Law members vow to obey. Scouts “are concerned about other people, and treat others as they would want to be treated.”

It’s been so long that we may not be able to recognize it, but we may have gotten a couple of glimpses of bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate so far this year.

The best chance to get the U.S. Senate to do its job is not to withhold pay (although withholding campaign contributions might have done the trick) but to reform the Senate rules so that filibusters aren’t used so routinely to gum up the works.

When the surge from superstorm Sandy inundated New York and New Jersey, the nation responded.

For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical uses of marijuana.

Public confessions of despicable behavior are all the rage among the rich and famous. Tell the camera tales of drug abuse and alcoholism, preferably with tearful eyes, and all related behavior shall be forgiven.