Georgie Anne Geyer

It is grossly unfair that crises always seem to arise in these "dog days" (with apologies to my cat, Nikko) of August. President Bush is down at his Crawford ranch,...

It was October 1990, and the first war in Iraq, the gulf war, was clearly on the horizon. Saddam Hussein had brutally taken Kuwait that summer, and the entire Middle...

There is plenty of blame going around these days for the horrific London bombings. A small minority criticizes London authorities for not expecting the attacks. Even many tolerant Brits are...

We have entered a new phase of the Iraq war since the optimism following the Jan. 30 elections there, and the manifestations of the changes are everywhere. Every American general...

And so, after the defeats of the last two weeks, is "Europe" really dead? Has the idea of Europe--as a single unified entity with a single constitution and a foreign...

The first thing that anyone in any profession should draw on is common sense. This is particularly important in journalism, where we deal not in those infinite theological or ideological...

Our voyager to the east has returned safely to Washington following what turned out to be an unusual pilgrimage into a new kind of diplomacy. I hesitantly (and modestly) predicted...

Today's confusing world--with revolutionary acts erupting from the Middle East to Central Asia--seems not only exciting, but also bursting with promise. Surely, positive changes must stem from these exhortations to...

What a strange week it has been. On Palm Sunday weekend, usually a time for sorrowful reflection, members of Congress raced back to the nation's capital, some of them from...

An open letter to Karen Hughes, just chosen by President Bush to take over "public diplomacy" in our not-so-friendly world: Dear Karen, It's really nice to welcome you back. I...