I have long believed that any American general or senior diplomat who wants to work in Iraq should have to pass a test. It would be a very simple test. It would consist of only one question: "Do you ...

Early in geometry we learned that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. That means if I'm at point A and want to get to point B, the shortest distance between those two points ...

What is the shortest distance between two lines? As we learned growing up in school, it is a straight line. When we look at two dots on a blank sheet of paper, that is the correct answer. Yet, unlike ...