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…

- David K. Shipler

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 …

- David K. Shipler

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, …

- David K. Shipler

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

- David K. Shipler

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

- David K. Shipler

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…

- David K. Shipler

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

- David K. Shipler

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

- David K. Shipler

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.

- David K. Shipler