It is so depressing and so familiar. Once again, the Middle East is in flames. Civilians, as usual, are suffering the most.
This round of violence, though, occurs in a d...
Air cargo service in America is like a ticking time bomb. One day a cargo plane — with an exhausted pilot or mechanical problem — will crash into a crowded mall or schoo...
As battles raged last week between Israel and Islamist groups in Gaza and Lebanon, my mind flashed back to a conversation I had with a senior Iranian official in May.
"T...
It is axiomatic that when you reach the summit, people will try to take you down. Witness history, and now, Katie Couric.
The rising "CBS Evening News" anchor, who is tr...
The Senate has taken a strong step toward overhauling FEMA, the federal disaster relief agency whose bungled response to Hurricane Katrina last year became a disaster of...
Finally, the need to improve foster care in America has begun to get the attention it deserves.
ABC recently ran a prime-time special, "A Call to Action: Saving Our Chil...
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz summed up the awful realities that are playing out in the Mideast with the apt expression, “The masquerade ball is over.” By which i...
PITTSBURGH — A senator seeking to model his career on that of some earlier Senate titan might choose one of the 19th century's "great triumvirate" — Daniel Webster, Henr...
Several episodes of alleged murder by U.S. soldiers in Iraq are making headlines.
In the most sensational case, a half- dozen serving and former troops are charged with ...
Remember back when the Bush administration concluded that the war on terror "renders obsolete" the Geneva Conventions and their "strict limitations on questioning of ene...
