The Wall Street Journal

For laypeople, one of the toughest things about science isn't understanding what science knows, but grasping how it knows what it knows. The process seems like a black box. Questions go in one end, answers mysteriously emerge from the other. By Sharon Begley

Two and a half years ago, Public Interest Watch, a self-described watchdog of nonprofit groups, wrote to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to audit Greenpeace and accusing the environmental group of money laundering and other crimes. By Steve Stecklow

Two New Papers Question Results Used to Challenge Influential Climate Study. By Antonio Regalado

Attacks in Southern Iraq, Raise Doubts on Free Rein, For Militias Linked to Iran. By Yochi J. Dreazen

"Who lost Turkey?" Because it shows that a 50-year special relationship, between longtime NATO allies who fought Soviet expansionism together starting in Korea, has long had to weather the ideological hostility and intellectual decadence of much of Istanbul's elite. By Robert L. Pollock

What we are starting to see is 50 years of legal refinement and revisions for oversight being quietly jettisoned.

As Najim Abdulhussein huddled with his 17-year-old son during their first night of detention by U.S. forces last August, he was confident the Americans would soon realize they had made a mistake and free them.