...ch, the result can be a little indignity. When they get lax, the danger is much greater. Yet there’s a revolt in the making over full body scans and patdowns and other aggressive tactics by TSA agent... can better balance convenience and security for the millions of people who pass through the nation’s airports. TSA Administrator John Pistole recently told Congress that screeners will reduce patdow...

Japan’s Foreign Ministry has perplexed us by ordering its officials not to use Korean Air for a month starting today. The reason for this ban was a demonstration flight the private airliner recently ...illing to sacrifice the recent improvement in its ties with Seoul, which was based on Korean people’s sympathy for victims of Japan’s triple disaster in March. What is behind its reckless move? The T...

South Korea and China have agreed to restore bilateral military relations, which have remained sour following North Korea’s torpedoing of the South’s warship Cheonan in March last year and subsequent shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in October. The agreement was reached between Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin and his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie during their talks in Beijing on Friday. Accordin...

The months ahead in 2011 will constitute a summer to remember for a long, long time. The world’s two largest economies ― the United States and Europe ― are drifting toward brutal days of reckoning. ...dent and the Senate. If they make good on this threat, the consequences could be a default by the U.S. government on its debt, or an interruption of vital payments to senior citizens, health providers...

...to the 50 million Americans lacking it, or at last put Uncle Sam in a position to rein in the world’s highest medical spending. Obama might have played hardball by telling the people, “These Republica...new adviser could help ― and I know just the guy. Goes by the name of Pavlov. And Mr. President, he’s just drooling to meet you. By Daniel Akst, Newsday Daniel Akst, a columnist for Newsday, is the ...

...nvolved and, ultimately, makes their enterprise dangerously self-interested and unaccountable. That’s the fundamental lesson to be taken from the spectacle of the Murdoch meltdown now underway in Lond...Murdoch is now an American citizen, his company’s deepest roots are in the press culture of Britain’s Fleet Street. News Corp., in fact, still controls nearly 40 percent of Britain’s newspaper market,...

...dded, “There is always the risk of some cells escaping or tending to reproduce, and therefore there’s a need to attack hard through chemotherapy.” Chavez earlier announced that his vice president wou...ngthening the unity of the Armed Force.” “Military unity, civilian unity. ... National unity. That’s one of the greatest ways you can help me now,” Chavez said. “I will return, and I’ll return better...