Some years ago I visited the famous Caves of the Buddhas deep in Central Asia. Out in the middle of China's vast Sinkiang province, we picked our way on narrow,...
It may seem at first odd--and surely coincidental--the degree to which two major stories dominated the front pages of our newspapers last week. We were just beginning to put aside...
President Bush's trip to Mexico must be judged a rousing success. It was refreshing to see him and the new Mexican president, Vicente Fox, enmeshed in such a mature cross-border...
The first thing everybody tells you about the new Danish chief of the entire UN mission here is, "Well, he's surely no Bernard Kouchner." It is usually said not critically,...
Interesting, how one-sidedly the British press has played President Bush's announcement that he will move at once to dramatically expand his social programs involving faith-based organizations. The Independent's headline: "Bush...
It was April of 1973, and I was in Baghdad for the first time, as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Without warning, I received some news from...
The swiftly resolved but engrossing case of Linda Chavez is, at least for the moment, over. She has bowed out gracefully. But the issues behind this newest case--with all the...
When you consider the philosophical and pragmatic ideas of President Vicente Fox about his country's borders with the United States, you enter a strange and contradictory world. It is one...
Rather like a girl who had been struggling all her life to get married and then suddenly stopped in midstream, not sure whether to go through with it, the European...
Behind all the confusion in Florida this last week, it was easy to miss a startling political statement. Yet Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for abolishing the Electoral College, one of...