Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.

Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.