Georgie Anne Geyer

In the late 1980s and the early '90s when I traveled to Berlin, I would always stop by the Polish market near Potsdamer Platz. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of impoverished...

If you believe many of the pundits and journalistic observers, this week's Republican convention in Philadelphia is nothing more than another woefully impoverished conservative exercise in deceptive theater. The Republicans...

London is cool and sunny this summer. Every corner of the city seems to sparkle with beauty and resound with memory. A summer like any other--or so it seems. In...

Foreigners here are downright perplexed at the newest tiff over Tony Blair and his problems. Frankly, they can't tell what the uproar is all about. After all, things like these...

What kind of American foreign policy would Al Gore establish as president? That is one of the major unaddressed issues of the campaign. Will it be Bill Clinton redux? The...

There is not even any attempt to hide the Cuban message now that the "lost" Elian Gonzalez is back in Cuba. Indeed, the first salvos from Havana after the charming...

The elections in Mexico Sunday are no longer only elections for the next president of the country. They are not even, as everyone is saying in some wonder, merely the...

If I were going to write a reflective long-term book about the elections in Zimbabwe, I would call it "A Primer for Demagogues." But, writing today, I call the grave...

When Syrian President Hafez Assad was a child in an impoverished village 60 years ago, his family was so poor that even fellow Alawites--themselves despised by the majority Sunni Muslims--looked...

A most unusual meeting was held last weekend in Chicago that bodes serious changes for American society. The national leadership of organized labor--those same AFL-CIO officials who had always regarded...