Ecuador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal is still counting the votes in the November 26 presidential runoff election but the results seem clear -…
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The late political philosopher Isaiah Berlin coined the term ”secular priesthood” to describe Russian commissars who were apologists for Stalin’s crimes. Later,…
Many pundits are comparing the expected Democratic victory in the upcoming election to the Newt Gingrich-led Republican triumph of 1994, an election…
On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that…
It takes great courage to venture onto the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal – especially on Fridays when Mary Anastasia…
Across the U.S. political and media spectrum, there was wide agreement yesterday: Name-calling and personal attacks are bad for national and global…
The bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005 raised the issue of racism especially starkly for politicians in Europe…
If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush Administration’s Middle Eastern policy sinks ever deeper into bloody incoherence,…
(Mexico City — July 30, 2006) The sea of yellow swept through the veins of Mexico City en route to the Zocalo…
To grasp what’s happening in the Middle East requires understanding two intertwined matters that are largely absent in mainstream media coverage and…