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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual... →
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had... →
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other... →
There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on... →
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they... →
Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter... →
Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their... →
Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary... →
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