Georgie Anne Geyer

"Why did Saddam do it?" Richard Butler, the new UN chief of inspections of Saddam Hussein's increasingly threatening weapons of mass destruction, posed that question, among many, this week. "We're...

When I first visited here five years ago, I called this lovely spot on the northernmost coast of Africa "a country that works." It was beginning to do that--and much...

Once again the American "peace team" has left miserable Gaza, with its ghostly white Palestinian slums inconspicuously up against the gorgeous blue Mediterranean. Once again publicly expressed "hope for peace"...

The confusion inherent in early coverage of the historic 15th Chinese Communist Party Congress that just ended in Beijing should give us warning of the "new China" soon to descend...

When the hapless Mercedes car crashed in the Paris tunnel Saturday, more died than Princess Diana and her companion and driver. The tragedy is swiftly defining the historical chasms and...

The year 1970 will be remembered for many reasons. It was the year Americans realized they were clearly losing the Vietnam War and the year the Beatles broke up--to name...

President Clinton is involved this August in the longest vacation of any American leader since Teddy Roosevelt took a 10-month hunting trip to Africa in 1909--and one can readily bet...

As the chaos again grows in the Middle East, one can almost hear Ronald Reagan's famous "There you go again" or perhaps Yogi Berra's classic "It's deja vu all over...

The stunning recent story of the poor, deaf Mexicans forced to peddle key chains on the streets and subways of New York reveals one more shadowy, Byzantine subculture in American...

One month during World War II, Joseph Stalin became worried that some of his military officers might challenge his total power, so he ordered the execution of 30,000 Russian officers,...