Arthur I. Cyr

During the intense fall U.S. presidential contest fifty-six years ago, Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon made history by debating face to face on nationwide TV...

The United Nations, once a focus of intense controversy in United States politics, is now broadly accepted. This has been confirmed by the overwhelming vote of the U.N. Security Council...

The death of Shimon Peres of Israel provides an opportunity to evaluate his leadership and also the evolving political and strategic situation of his country and the wider region. Undeniably,...

"Bullets wrote our past. Education, our future." That is the inscription on the pen used on September 26 to sign the final peace agreement between the government of Colombia and...

"A riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a mystery" is how Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union. He was speaking in October 1939, right after World War II commenced in...

"Today we announce an arrangement that we think has the capability of sticking." That is how U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, standing with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, announced...

"... nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." In that Biblical statement (Galatians 3:28) St. Paul underscores basic equality between women and men....

South Korea and the United States on Aug. 22 began regular annual joint military exercises, including operations near the North Korea border. The communist dictatorship has responded with characteristically bellicose...

Brazil is truly a nation in flux. The Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have unfolded fairly smoothly, though not without incidents and ongoing tensions. In June, Australian Paralympian...

"Spooked by Brexit, Mr. Bond?" That is the caption under a photograph of actor Daniel Craig, our current James Bond, pistol in hand, looking concerned. The picture appears in a...