Just about any conversation on foreign policy these days will eventually turn to "Somalia." To many Americans, that is not so much a country as an awful memory. It was...
Although there was little coverage of the story because of the Clinton scandal here, Bosnia, long the "centerpiece" of this presidential foreign policy, held its second elections since the Dayton...
For every year of my life, I remember Labor Day as the demarcation of a coming year, much more so than Christmas or New Year's, because September marked the real...
On Sunday, a referendum will be held in Panama. It will be a vote to see whether Panamanians want to change their constitution, to make it possible for Ernesto Perez...
Forgive me if I recall briefly my own "meeting" several years ago with Harry Thomason, the Hollywood persona surgeon who was center stage again this week in the ongoing drama...
If you were to bring four or five of the best minds in the country together, invite them to a gorgeous setting, pamper them with good food and sunshine, and...
All I know is that when I returned recently from a lengthy trip to Russia and the Caucasus, I had not seen television for three weeks--and I was happy! No...
The Armenian defense minister looks very much like an Old Testament prophet, with his flashing dark eyes, square jaws and heavy black beard. On the walls of Vazgen Sarkisian's ministry,...
Increasingly over the past quarter-century, more and more Americans have come to wonder if American citizenship really means anything anymore. They have watched new immigrants pour in illegally, with virtually...
Oddly enough, even as Russia is going through a profound national restructuring, from this vantage point I see some important "restructuring" going on in the United States as well. The...