Georgie Anne Geyer

I suppose it was too much for me to wish that someone over these last two weeks had mentioned the first time that hostages were taken by the Persian people....

Watching President Bush give his State of the Union address Tuesday night, my thoughts wandered to an autumn day in Midland, Texas, six years ago, just before he was elected...

Even in death, Jerry Ford did one more favor for the country he gave so much to. He died just at the moment when, with his country riven by a...

As Americans contemplate Christmas this year, many of us may be considering how deeply religion has infiltrated every corner of life across the globe. Politics is religious, economics is religious,...

So the emotional and crucial American elections of 2006 are over. The Democrats won big. If you look back at the errant stupidity of these last six years--the arrogance, hubris...

Americans are familiar with China's biggest problems--a population pushing 1.3 billion, an official one-child-per-family policy, deserts that are moving rapidly over its already small arable land mass, and water tables...

When Vicente Fox became the "great reformist president" of Mexico six years ago, everyone expected that he would build upon his extraordinary defeat of decades of rule by the Institutional...

"Transitions" is not a particularly compelling word. It doesn't grip you, like "victory" or "liberation." It's more like those popular books that try to tell you how to get through...

Everyone knows by now the horrific tragedy that befell New Orleans. But one story, first of sorrow and then of rescue, has remained, oddly enough, little told. This is the...

I have not been known for my admiration for Israel's hard-line Prime Minister Ariel Sharon--but then, neither have been many Israelis. He was, in his own word, a "bulldozer" who...