No Straw Men

The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords—and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on.

Battling for organs against the National Kidney Foundation.

Google has long insisted that it has no plans to own or create content, and that it is a friend, not a foe, of media companies.

Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way that today it is energy independent.

Even though the process is a charade, it still represents progress in China, in that the law implicitly acknowledges the legitimacy of protest.

Throughout his presidential campaign, he has been the overseer of a kingdom of dissenting camps, unclear lines of command and an unsettled atmosphere that keeps aides constantly on edge.