Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other ha….

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance..

Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, ….

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual ….

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties..

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task se….

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office..

The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even th….

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination..

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure..

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they ….

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had ….