By Jack d'Annibale and Richard Arthur

Last week, the USNS Mercy hospital ship completed its mission to Cambodia as part of the United States Navy's Pacific Partnership. Among the 29,000 patients treated by Navy doctors and Cambodian medical staff was a small boy who underwent a successful surgery. During pre-op,...

2010: An oil rig blows up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven and beginning what will turn out to be the largest oil spill in American history. Thousands of miles of coastline will be covered with oil, shutting down fisheries, killing untold numbers of marine animals and stealing the...

Much has been made of The Hurt Locker's unending tension and awful beauty as characters portrayed by Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty defuse IEDs on the urban battlefields of Iraq. But the film presents something more than entertainment. The writer, Mark Boal, and director, Kathryn Bigelow, have presented...

In his State of the Union speech last Wednesday, President Obama called for a repeal of the controversial "Don't ask, don't tell" directive that has kept gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military. Against the backdrop of California's continuing debate over gay marriage, the President's statement reflects...

If Afghanistan was a stock, we would sell it. Their CEO is a crook, their corporate governance is woeful, and too many of their employees are uncommitted to success. Besides, even if they could actually get a product to market (peace? stability? democracy?) consumers could probably buy it elsewhere for...

If U.S. government owns 80% of AIG and still can't force the company to quit overpaying their executives, something is very wrong. Read on, I have a solution because shareholders (also know as "owners") must have more of a say. Multi-national companies enjoy unprecedented power in every facet of public...

How is America to take Sarah Palin seriously when, since 1983, she and her husband have taken $125,000 from the oil companies because she has lived in Alaska?

While the rest of America has been held hostage by high gas prices, her family has actually made a profit. Big...

In the dark old days, bloodthirsty despots hung or staked the corpses of political prisoners and vanquished enemies in the city square as a brutal warning of their power.

Is that process continued today? Sort of. Leave it to the Germans to update the practice and then bring it...

President Bush is mounting an election-year initiative to end the federal ban on offshore drilling and oil exploration in ANWR. While high prices at the pump making any panacea attractive, drawing down those resources now irrevocably weakens America's long-term strategic resource positioning without even the benefit of a price break...