The news that Al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen sought to detonate a sophisticated explosive on a passenger flight is disturbing, though not…
Francois Hollande’s dramatic victory in Sunday’s French presidential election could turn out to be one of this year’s most significant…
I was recently invited to lecture at several Chinese universities about "soft power"—the ability to get what one wants by attraction and…
I can only speak with authority through Feb. 15, 2009," said Michael Hayden, who was George W. Bush's last CIA director. "But at that point…
In the 1983 movie “Educating Rita,” aging British Professor Frank Bryant teaches his young, commoner student how to read Macbeth. Comparing…
The dramatic events in Beijing surrounding the brave Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, are confounding and hard to fathom at such a great…
Twenty years ago this week, a jury acquitted the Los Angeles policemen who beat motorist Rodney King, and the city exploded in a six-day…
Who killed Osama bin Laden? Former political leaders, military brass, and intelligence chieftains are all staking their claims, as if there…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
Since the middle of the last century, the American labor movement has been in steady decline. In the early 1950s, around one-third of the…