WASHINGTON -- As we looked at the TV and other press coverage of the terrible massacre at Fort Hood last week, we rather quickly learned a lot about American Muslims, our military and our citizens in general -- only it is not exactly what we would expect to learn. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- A new term is making the rounds in foreign policy circles in Washington these days. It is undeniably clumsy. The term is "the un-Vietnam," referring to a war that has been over for 34 years yet still comes back like an arrow gone wrong when we talk about Afghanistan. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Twenty years ago, early in October, I found myself in East Berlin observing one of modern history's most incredible events. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- This fall, David Rohde, a young and intrepid journalist covering Afghanistan for The New York Times, told the dramatic story of his seven months in captivity with one of the most extreme Taliban militias -- from his capture in Afghanistan to months in miserable, gun-filled rooms in the Pakistani tribal areas. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Little attention has been paid recently to Nicaragua. "Only right," you may well respond. "After all, that tiny, troubled country in Central America became only relatively important when the Marxist Sandinistas took over in 1979 -- becoming temporarily the 'second Cuba' in the hemisphere." Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Many Americans, engrossed in immediate events like health care and the Afghan war, doubtless are not thinking about the dramatic events of 20 years ago this fall in Germany -- but they soon will be. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- Everybody pretty much knows that the Afghan and Pakistan wars have suddenly taken a different turn. Nearly every day now, they are the subject of urgent White House meetings, as officials and generals debate what last turn to take -- deeper involvement that could keep us there for years or a swift-as-possible removal of our troops. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- America today is a country whose public life is drenched with sex. Reality shows are awash in the most inane and often cruel sexual exploitation of both women and men, and occasionally I turn the knob wrong and hit a man and a woman in what my mother would have innocently called a "compromising" pose, but today is more often craven or sick. Full Story »
WASHINGTON -- In all the nasty, sarcastic, ridiculing words from the Far Right about President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, there has been an important historic undercurrent that has been little noticed. Full Story »
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