Georgie Anne Geyer

The Bush administration has spent the last 13 months huffily turning away every inquiry about accusations of torture or abuse in American-run prisons in Iraq. It has taken the war...

Here in this exquisite corner of the Middle East--where historic "Arabia" still works its magic and the delicious smell of burning frankincense greets you in every public building--one finds much...

It would be strange if it were not so, well, "Washington." The American mission in Iraq is falling apart, and the White House now tacitly admits that, far from leaving...

One of the first questions to greet Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when he stopped here this week on a tour of the region was...

Has it not occurred to us Americans, as we effectively sink into a civil war in Iraq this week, that we seem to have some kind of "problem" with the...

This southern Arizona border, where the United States of America meets Mexico, is one of the most ethereally beautiful places in the world--but it is also one of the strangest....

It has simply never happened before. In the dark annals of terrorism, the events in Madrid last week represent a step into the abyss so menacing that even many terrorist...

Haiti presents us with a strange modern case study. For many, the chaos in that poor land represents a rebellion not against tyranny but against "democracy," the supposed solution of...

The son of good friends of mine just returned from Iraq, where he is a top-level American civilian administrator. He was at the center of the action for 10 months,...

The first week of January 1959, Fidel Castro and his "barbudos" marched across Cuba triumphantly, taking Havana within days and transforming Cuba for all time. Despite all the revolution's failures...