The picture will take a long time to forget: the commando pointing an MP-5 submachine gun at a 6-year-old boy and the fisherman who had plucked him from the sea....
While the country is fighting over a 6-year-old boy in Florida, the big geopolitical news is buried on the back page. President Clinton has quietly added Russia to a planned...
For years now we have been hearing Bill Clinton and other Democratic luminaries (most recently, Bill Bradley) tell us how difficult the world is today compared with the Cold War...
In early 1970s, we thought it a splendid idea to symbolize physically our newfound friendship with the Soviets. It is still on view today at Washington's Air and Space Museum:...
In late February, as the first anniversary of our intervention in Kosovo approached, American peacekeepers launched house-to-house raids in Mitrovica looking for weapons. They encountered a rock-throwing mob and withdrew....
Irving Kristol once pointed out that one of the virtues of the Organization of American States is that it "is a kind of mini-United Nations where we can be voted...
Let's see: (1) Flush and prosperous, America goes on a decade-long, gas-guzzling SUV binge. (2) Out of deference to calving Arctic caribou, the government declares off limits for exploration the...
From the 2050 edition of the "History of the English Speaking Peoples," revised, by Winston Churchill VI: Most interesting of all was the American election year 2000. On Jan. 1,...
Unlike most of my media colleagues, I didn't cringe at John McCain's bitter, non-concession concession speech on the night he got whopped in South Carolina. I thought it was great....
Even John McCain seemed surprised by his resurrection in Michigan. He had already begun saying, repeatedly, "I am proud of the campaign we ran," precisely the kind of thing you...