Forbes Avik Roy, Contributor Many politicians (and many voters) duck the hard choices when it comes to Medicare reform. But what’s remarkable about the past year is that, in some ways, momentum appears to be building for real improvements to the pr… more »

The Christian Science Monitor / By Dan Murphy The information warriors at the Pentagon probably can't believe their luck. Iran has spent much of the past month crowing about how it could shut down the Strait of Hormuz -- a choke-point for vast qua… more »

Boston Globe By David Abel A recent MIT graduate acknowledged yesterday that he met and exchanged multiple e-mails with the Army private accused of providing thousands of classified war records to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, but he adamantly… more »