Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men....And the best place to start is with a carbon tax.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.