Georgie Anne Geyer

Those hot, sultry days of August 1979 in Nicaragua seemed days of destiny. Theorists and observers of revolution from all over the world poured into Managua to study the new...

A big march is going to be held in Washington honoring Columbus Day this Saturday. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of Californians are planning to attend. How nice, you think, a...

I have, over the years, made the acquaintance of a number of kinds of foreign policies, but until now I had never met one based on "post-Christian guilt." Yet as...

How things seem to have changed for the diplomats of the U.S. Foreign Service. For years, the Foreign Service Institute, which gives official State Department "training in international relations," was...

And now, Liberia, which should have been so different . . . Liberia, after all, was to be not only an experiment in civilization, but an example. Founded by freed...

In 1961, Chicago attorney Newton Minow, even then impassioned about the carnage in one of America's greatest promises, became famous for his watershed speech calling television a "vast wasteland." These...

The story that Fidel Castro is working hard to spread around seems so clear and unequivocal: He is welcoming tourists to, inviting foreign investors in, and "opening up" Cuba to...

Some years are years of human greatness; others of degradation. Some we look back upon with awe--1945, for instance, or 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. Others leave us only...

One would think from the events of the last week that only one famous trial was at an end in America. One would surely surmise that O.J. Simpson alone existed...

The gathering conflict between the United States and Russia is supposedly over Russia's rage at being kept out of NATO. There is just one problem with that theory: Russia does...