There have been many "morning afters" here, both literally and figuratively, but the real Morning After is about to come, and its international policy migraines are looming for the next...
The election campaign is in full blossom here in America, and many foreigners (and, frankly, Americans, too) are convinced that this campaign is one of small differences, that it is...
Incredibly, in a debate dominated by the same "me" themes as the earlier ones, the two presidential candidates on Tuesday spent roughly one and a half minutes each on the...
How can one overstate the historic importance of the swift "revolution" in Yugoslavia this past week? The scenes of enraged and fed-up men and women using their votes, and their...
When I was in Berlin last fall, Germans were still complaining about reunification. Speaking about that invisible but real wall in people's minds that divides East and West, they often...
Watching the forthcoming presidential elections Sunday in Serbia, it is tempting to sagely reiterate that, "The Balkans will always remain the Balkans." That strange, passionlessly ambitious man, Slobodan Milosevic, sits...
Up on the 36th floor, some of the best officials of the UN's peacekeeping operations are waging war against the past. Still in the guise of "making peace," they are...
The presidential campaign speeches are filled with questions about the future of the nation's military forces. Mid-level officers are resigning in abnormally large numbers, morale in many units is at...
The imposing new Mexican president, Vicente Fox, has left Washington, but many Americans, official and otherwise, are still criticizing the unprecedented immigration policies that he carried here last week. Open...
In the often plastic celebrations of this American electoral season and the party conventions, one subject is never raised. In fact, there seems almost to be a ban on its...