Georgie Anne Geyer

For idealistic American journalists who were working in Latin America in the l950s and '60s, one of their most incessant and righteous complaints about their own government was how it...

As we approach our first Memorial Day of the new millennium, America is losing its national memory. This would be serious enough in any country, but it is deadly for...

An important indicator of the journalistic tenor of our times is found in Seymour Hersh's just-published New Yorker article, "Overwhelming force: What happened in the final days of the Gulf...

The struggle between a strong, unbending human-rights policy in the world and a more tough-minded, classical "realpolitik" approach not surprisingly often comes to the fore in foreign policy discussions. So...

An important film on what is rapidly becoming the most problematic military reality of our times--"Peacekeepers" by BBC America--is about to be shown on TV this spring and summer. It...

When Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa was here in mid-March accompanying the Egyptian president, he was optimistic about the prospects for peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict and was confident that...

After Alberto Fujimori had been unexpectedly elected president of Peru 10 years ago, thus breaking the hold of the Spanish aristocratic classes who had ruled since the Conquest, I asked...

In these days following the election of Vladimir Putin to the presidency of Russia, the most revealing words on the American side are those repeated by diplomats and policymakers in...

It's a strange spring. The cherry blossoms came out too early this year--the second-earliest blooming in recorded history. They really should have known that the sun wouldn't be ready for...

In the winter of l997, Pope John Paul II was traveling to Brazil when one of the reporters aboard his plane questioned him as to when he would issue his...