Risky Business

Keeping the peace in Rio de Janeiro has never been a job description for the faint-hearted. But the mayhem that swept the streets of South America’s fairest city this week has been extreme even by outsize Brazilian standards. More ›

Regardless of where the first shot came from, Pyongyang seems to have been setting the stage for this kind of attack as early as last year. For the past two years, the North Koreans have increasingly claimed that they were threatened by American and South Korean war games. More ›

As you slog through security lines this holiday weekend, wondering if you should join the ranks of the anonymously naked observed by an unseen TSA agent or go eyeball to eyeball with one who pats you down, and pats you up, and pats sideways and roundabout with a little probing here and there—and there!—just remember it could have been so much worse. More ›

In an age of terror, we need to do everything we can to keep our citizens safe, including scans and screening procedures. More ›

A letter written by a parliamentary committee in Iran indicates that the Majlis, or Parliament, had considered "the questioning and impeachment" of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but refrained because of "orders" given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for cooperation between the government and the Majlis. More ›

Washington can seem like a Venn diagram where the two circles—Republicans and Democrats—will never touch. But on the issue of education reform, the two parties may be able to come together. More ›