Opinion - The Christian Science Monitor

New York - Do you know Tiger Woods? Of course you don't. But you think that you do. Full Story »

Washington - Tabloids have pounced on Tiger Woods for his apparent failure to uphold family values. Their stories use traditional morals to define adultery as scandal and include words like "sin" and "confession." Full Story »

The person best able to bring back jobs to unemployed Americans spent Thursday trying to keep his own job. Full Story »

New York - Golf's golden boy has fallen and many Americans are pointing and laughing. As soon as the headlines hit – Tiger Woods was in a car accident last week mired in mystery – the schadenfreude began: Was he cheating? Was he drinking? Did his wife beat him up? Is their marriage doomed? Full Story »

Florence, Italy - As he announced on Tuesday, President Obama is betting that sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan will rapidly change the balance of power in the field, erode local support for the Taliban and bolster their local opponents, give breathing space to the Kabul government to clean up its act, allow humanitarian aid and development to reach the countryside, and possibly bring some war-weary Taliban to the negotiating table. Full Story »

Washington - Critics on the left and the right have skewered President Obama for his speech laying out his administration's Afghanistan strategy. From the execrable to the thoughtful, the president's critics have caviled at the tone, the venue, and the content of Obama's war plan. Full Story »

Many decades ago, as a fledgling CIA officer in the field, I was naively convinced that if the facts were reported back to Washington correctly, everything else would take care of itself in policymaking. Full Story »

President Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan should once again give that disheartened country a "reason to hope," as he put it, in gaining a life free of violent extremists. Full Story »

The case of the ambush and killing of four police officers in a coffee shop near Seattle on Sunday is exceptionally troubling – emphasis on exceptionally. Full Story »

Atlanta - A new Democratic president must decide whether to increase US military support of a corrupt government in a poor Asian nation. That government is fighting a distressingly persistent, foreign-supported, ideologically motivated insurgency. Full Story »