Georgie Anne Geyer

The humongous new Department of Homeland Security has been kicked off, and don't we all feel safer now? This agency, bringing together 170,000 employees from such unlike institutions as the...

This lovely city, with its stirring panorama of pure white monuments, symbolizes all the higher aspirations of the American story. It's all the stranger, then, that a gray film of...

Behind the results of this week's elections and beyond the immediate questions of control of Congress and the states, fear is growing in Washington about our whole system shifting beneath...

Only two days before the American diplomat Laurence Foley was shot dead just outside his home here, in a beautiful neighborhood of golden stone houses and bougainvillea vines, a young...

Let's see if we can pick the most important international story of this last week. Was it perhaps: - That the CIA released a report predicting that, by attacking Iraq,...

The greatest mystery to me in all the war talk is not exactly what Saddam Hussein hides in the cellars under his 45th glorious palace, or whether he will attack...

First off, this column is admittedly going to be a bit strange. It is not about Iraq, the Palestinians or the Sinkiang Uighur tribesmen. If you have absolutist ideas about...

So now we observe the next scenes in the strange drama that seems to speed toward its last act, and once again the promise does not coincide with reality. This...

All afternoon Monday, I sampled the feelings of people around this historic building--and there was most definitely a feeling of being besieged by Washington and the Bush administration. Foreign diplomats...

At the end of last summer, one of the Bush administration's major initiatives was amnesty for Mexican illegal immigrants in the United States. The presidents of America and Mexico seemed...