Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us…

[Note: No one invited me to give this graduation speech. It was concocted freely in the campus of my mind and it’s meant…

"Do you do this in the United States? There is police action every day in the United States… They don't call in…

Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the…

It’s the saddest reading around: the little announcements that dribble out of the Pentagon every day or two — those terse, relatively…

Here’s the essence of it: you can trust America’s crème de la crème, the most elevated, responsible people, no matter what weapons, what…

He has few constraints (except those he’s internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of…

Take off your hat. Taps is playing. Almost four decades late, the Vietnam War and its post-war spawn, the Vietnam Syndrome, are…

I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another…

When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from…