For some time, I have been suggesting that the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the…

As George W. Bush’s approval ratings sink below 40%, and the GOP and all its projects, from the Iraq War to Social…

Sometimes the truth of a large, confusing historical enterprise can be glimpsed in a single news report. Such is the case in…

A metaphorical “nuclear option” — the cutoff of debate in the Senate on judicial nominees — has just been defused, but a…

The review conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), a five-yearly event, opened in New York on May 2 without benefit of…

Perhaps the most beautiful achievement of political life in the late twentieth century was the international movement for democracy that brought down…

One of the most difficult things to judge in the world today is the extent of American power. On the one hand,…

Introspection is not the purpose of this occasional column, but a moment of it seems appropriate in the wake of the election…

The war in Iraq has given birth to an issue that may one day be seen as more important than the war,…

For some time now, American political discussion has seemed to revolve around little stock phrases, such as “defining moment” (at the time…