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Hardly anyone in the U.S. took Newt Gingrich seriously when he suggested committing American resources to a moon colony, but Foreign Policy's John Hickman says across the Pacific they don't think the idea's so outlandish.

Anne-Marie Slaughter left her position as the State Department's director of policy planning to spend more time with her children. Slaughter, now a Princeton professor, details what needs to change both in workplaces and in society to create equal opportunities for all working women.

Drones are no longer the sole province of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. They are starting to appear in U.S. skies. Police are employing them to fight crime. Enthusiasts are making their own at home. Rules governing their use are changing, and civil liberties groups are calling for privacy restrictions.

For the past decade, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the terror threat from al-Qaida, have been the focus of U.S. security officials. Now the debate is shifting, and planners are trying to figure out what comes next.

Ahead of Sunday's critical parliamentary vote that could determine Greece's fate as a part of the euro, The Nation's Maria Margaronis views the election from the inside and highlights the story too often forgotten in the country's financial crisis — that of the Greek citizen.

Egyptians are on edge, waiting to see who comes out of the latest political deadlock as the new president, but, as The Nation's Sharif Abdel Kouddous points out, whoever wins will likely be at the mercy of the military.

Time and again, the court has shaken up American politics with pronouncements no one quite expected, from the rejection of "separate but equal" schools to the striking down of bans on gay sex. And the effects of a landmark decision may only be revealed over time.

Stuart Foster of South Carolina was jailed last year in Guangzhou for theft. He says he was forced to assemble Christmas lights, some of them exported to the U.S.

Is banning sugar from your home to chronicle the effects on your family a gimmick veiled in a health halo? Actually, there's a lot to learn from a memoir of obsessive label-reading and weird baking.

A Senate panel voted Thursday to declassify parts of a controversial report on the CIA's use of interrogation activities. Here's a look at some of the key Senate players and their motivations.