Waiting for Baker.
That may be the last, desperate Bush administration hope for rescuing its flailing Iraq policy. U.S. officials are anxiously awaiting the report of th...
I'm worried about homework, not about whether there is too much of it or too little, but rather because a lot of it is the wrong kind.
By the wrong kind, I mean the dril...
WASHINGTON — The first stop on Condoleezza Rice's post-detonation, nuclear reassurance tour was Tokyo. There, she dutifully unfurled the American nuclear umbrella, pledg...
I could smell the sulfur again — and the sickening scent of the dead.
Clint Eastwood's new movie about Iwo Jima, "Flags of Our Fathers," was so powerful and so real it t...
In this election season, President Bush and many of his political allies have portrayed U.S. options in Iraq as a choice between "stay the course" and "cut and run." But...
Who's Jim Baker?
Odd, that may sound. But to all the 20-somethings out there who rely on blogs, attitude and Jon Stewart to shape their political views, a 76-year-old fo...
The United States has been a stabilizing and balancing force in the Middle East for many years. But when we broke up the existing balance of power in the region by toppl...
When the British medical journal The Lancet reported last week that more than 650,000 Iraqis may have died because of the U.S. invasion of their country, President Bush ...
North Korea's apparent test of a nuclear weapon has provoked another debate over whether it's worth negotiating with rogue states.
I believe this is not the moment for a...
It's a core American value that if someone works hard, he or she deserves to live in dignity, and yet the $7.50 hourly wage that Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott pays thousands of...
