Georgie Anne Geyer

The word "mysterious" is not one that most observers would automatically use to describe Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The former general is obviously a man of integrity, a lifelong...

Atop a hill in the early winter mud, in a dilapidated, dung-colored building that was once a film studio, there works an unlikely general. He is supposed to be the...

When Egypt's premier social commentator, Saad Eddine Ibrahim, was on one television call-in show on the fatal crash of EgyptAir 990, every caller had his or her idea about what...

After Serbia started the war against its neighbors in 1991, the great mass of international observers that then assaulted the region would come to Zagreb from Belgrade--and invariably compare Croatia's...

When the brouhaha over the sensational artwork at the Brooklyn Museum of Art began this fall, this newest crisis over art and its purposes seemed redolent of all of the...

When I interviewed Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan commando leader and presidential candidate, last fall in Caracas, Venezuela, this controversial and obviously charismatic man talked endlessly--indeed, almost to the exclusion of...

It sounds at first like a reasonable deal. North Korea apparently agrees to forgo its threatening long-range missile testing for the time being, so long as it is involved in...

The 20th Century has been full of new political styles, mechanisms and stratagems. Teddy Roosevelt developed the peculiarly American "can do" attitude of changing the world through sheer Yankee superiority...

For many years now, California has been developing a different democracy from the rest of the nation. Decentralization of the state's cities and institutions has reached often absurd dimensions. The...

Ever since Bill Clinton moved into America's consciousness, Americans have been aware that Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of our consummate feminists. The first lady believes women can do everything--from...