Anita who? As we sink ever deeper into the sordidness of the Lewinsky affair, one begins to wonder: What was that Anita Hill business about anyway? It is not just...
For decades now, the prospect of world overpopulation--and the impoverishment, resource depletion and ecological damage associated with it--have dominated our nightmares and permeated our politics. Population control, particularly Third World...
Every structure in this city of unearthly beauty, from the 16th Century Old City walls built by Suleiman the Magnificent to the Hilton Hotel that opened this year, is made...
I had just come off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport, gotten into a van and proceeded exactly 40 yards, when I turned the corner and entered upon a scene...
As India and Pakistan exploded their nukes and American diplomats scurried about trying to look important, there was another piece of news, overlooked among the more spectacular shocks, that symbolized...
On May 15, with much fanfare and import, the State Department sent a "high-level delegation" to persuade Pakistan not to explode a nuclear bomb. So much for American persuasiveness. Perhaps...
The era of budget surpluses dawns and the pilfering has already begun. Congress has just passed a huge transportation bill that busts the ceilings established by the balanced-budget agreement just...
It's not the tests that matter, it's what they prepare you for. India's underground nuclear explosions are in themselves quite beside the point. The problem is that they enable India...
When Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and her "peace team" went to London last week to negotiate territorial withdrawals with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israelis came to...
Once upon a time, a politician would promise to do anything--abolish taxes, hold back the tides, run over his grandmother--in the name of the "working man." Not anymore. Nowadays everything...