European countries must join America, which has made disproportionate sacrifices, in what is, emphatically, a common fight in Afghanistan.
Can We Afford It?
The argument that the nation cannot afford health care reform is at best disingenuous; the pending bills would actually reduce deficits.
To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East
By SCOTT ATRAN
The key in the Afghan-Pakistani area, as in Southeast Asia, is to use local customs and networks to our advantage.
Japan's Year in Words
By KUMIKO MAKIHARA
This year's selection of most popular Japanese phrases reflects a country battling hard times and fighting the flu.
By CLAUDIA PUGH-THOMAS
Dubai, the brashest of the seven emirates, is facing something of a midlife crisis. Lost is the blind optimism of its youth. But can the dream be reinvented?
Gone With the Windfall
By PAUL WILMOTT
Will Britain’s bonus tax make banking boring — as it should be?
Columns
Japanese Obsessions
By ROGER COHEN
This comfortable, perfectionist society of narrowed ambition leads humanity's rush into isolating forms of electronic fixation.
Disaster and Denial
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The Republican Party won’t face up to the reality of what happened to the U.S. economy. So it’s up to the Democrats.
CommentsPrisons of Our Own Making
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Conservatives need to take ownership of prison reform, and correct the system they helped build.
