Georgie Anne Geyer

As Colin Powell prepared this week to leave the State Department, my thoughts wandered back to one of my favorite characters of ancient history--a Chinese sage who accompanied Genghis Khan...

Now, with the American election over, the negative images of Europe planted in Americans' minds over the last four years by the fervently anti-European Bush administration will surely grow. Europe...

They lied. They said it would be decided by Wednesday morning when we woke up, that the sun would shine with illuminating clarity, and the moral dustiness and intellectual rustiness...

As the American election draws closer, strains in trans-Atlantic alliances grow more intense--as they do with all the world. Both newspapers and private conversations are full of worry and concern...

The most repeated observation about the outcome of the presidential election is that the policy on the Iraq war will turn out essentially the same, no matter which candidate wins....

Amazing how things can change overnight in America. For 25 years, the nation has endured a seemingly unending trauma over the control (or, more generally, the non-control) of immigration. Report...

Almost every day, American helicopters attack civilian areas somewhere in Iraq. "15 Iraqis killed and 50 wounded" in Baghdad, in only one attack this week! Talk is now growing about...

Why would they do it? Why would Chechen militants or international terrorists--or whoever they were--choose a school in a backward part of southern Russia, the town of Beslan in North...

Everyone knows the Bush administration is enormously influenced by evangelical Christian themes--some appropriate to foreign policy issues, some totally inappropriate. President Bush has said repeatedly that his is a historical...

During his first five years in office, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seemed like a harmless political ingenue--at worst, a new version of the traditional Latin American populist caudillo, or strongman....