Reflecting now, I wonder if I can and should separate in my mind the man from his reactionary views and career choices

Ever since governments disappointed the world in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 by not producing a global agreement that would mandate…

It is obvious that none of these five approaches seems either attractive enough to challenge the status quo or politically persuasive enough to shift the balance of forces bearing on the conflict

With all due respect to the Presbyterian drafters of the text, it is not helpful to Palestinians, Israelis, and even Americans to lengthen the half-life of the two-state solution

A letter to the NY Times responding to their editorial of June 6, 2014, which was not accepted for publication

It is too soon to assess the wider implications of this political move that angers the Israeli government and has been greeted with hostile caution in Washington and Europe

The depth of this deepening humanitarian crisis has even moved the normally passive Palestinian Authority to take some action

Ironically, the Obama conception of American leadership is depressingly similar in some of its essential features to the commencement address given by George W. Bush at West Point twelve years earlier

There is a serious question as to whether it is appropriate to use the ICC to gather evidence and prepare an indictment in circumstances where prospects of prosecution are remote and an ongoing struggle for control of the Syrian state remains unresolved

Reacting to injustice is above all a visual and visceral experience. This is what Pope Francis has taught us