I have long believed that any American general or senior diplomat who wants to work in Iraq should have to pass a test. It would be a very simple test. It would consist of only one question: "Do you ...

What is the shortest distance between two lines? As we learned growing up in school, it is a straight line. When we look at two dots on a blank sheet of paper, that is the correct answer. Yet, unlike ...

Instead, their routes zigzag between points, curve across the globe, or sometimes even appear longer than necessary. So why ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has 15 different definitions for the word ‘line’ as a noun. There are 11 more ways one could use the word as a verb. But the dictionary is too stringent, too limiting.