OK, so you can’t lose weight just by sleeping if you eat doughnuts five times a day and never leave your couch. But, it turns out, there may be a correlation between your appetite and how much and how well you sleep. It’s a captivating idea, and it could have repercussions for increasingly sedentary, stress-filled […]

After months of civil war in Syria, it is increasingly clear that President Bashar al-Assad’s days in power are numbered. The Syrian endgame is unlikely to be a clean break with decades of tyranny. An uprising inspired by the Arab Spring could devolve into months or years of sectarian strife. The U.S. and its allies […]

Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate led to a wave of pundit accolades. Now, declared writer after writer, we’re going to have a real debate about the nation’s fiscal future. This was predictable: Nevermind the Tea Party, Ryan’s true constituency is the commentariat, which years ago decided that he was the […]