Jan 16th 2010
UNITED NATIONS - Roads are jammed with the homeless sleeping under open skies. The promised food, water and medicine are slow in reaching them. The dead litter byways, some scooped up in dump trucks and unloaded into mass graves.
Jan 14th 2010
For those of us who have a special place in our hearts for the long-suffering people of Haiti, the horrific pictures and tragic news reports
Jan 11th 2010
Dec 24th 2009
The expected Christmas Eve Senate vote to pass a health care reform bill will be a remarkable, historic event.
Dec 16th 2009
Senator Joe Lieberman's successful maneuver to eliminate any form of public option from the Senate health reform bill makes one thing perfectly clear: to pass the most import
Dec 12th 2009
Barack Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, delivered in Oslo, on December 10, 2009, elicited a good deal of appreciative and bewildered comment.
Dec 8th 2009
Last month's drop in the unemployment rate and continued reduction of job losses is certainly good news.
Dec 4th 2009
Like many Progressives, I disagreed with President Obama's decision to increase the number of American troops deployed to Afghanistan.
Dec 1st 2009
An hour with Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to Margaret Thatcher and a critic of global warming theories.
Part 1
Nov 21st 2009
Evenhandedness in the Mideast? It sounds fair if it means equal rules for Arabs and Jews.
Nov 19th 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement that he will send health insurance reform to the floor of the Senate this week signals that the long march to change America, that began with Barack Obama's announcement for President three years ago, has arrived at the gates of what is most certai
Nov 17th 2009
Torture victims often lose their voice twice: first during the torture itself and then when no one listens to their ordeal, Actress Emma Thompson says.
Nov 9th 2009
Today we celebrate 11/9. The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11, but controversy persists about its causes.
Nov 9th 2009
I landed in London at 6:30 am (GMT) and turned on my Blackberry to find it flooded with emails sent while I had been in the air, flying home from the Middle East.