The Jon Huntsman Fizzle?
I had planned to write a column explaining why Republican voters should give Jon Huntsman a second look. The timing was right: less than four weeks until New Hampshire. There ...
Pakistan: The Trust Deficit
The deadly cross-border attack in Pakistan this weekend, in which Afghan and NATO forces accidentally killed at least 25 Pakistani soldiers during an airstrike, is only the latest symptom of ...
Let’s Have a Real Foreign-Policy Debate
Saturday’s Republican foreign-policy debate yielded only one revelation, neither comforting nor productive: When it comes to international affairs, most of the contenders offer plenty of political theater and little substance.
First ...
Iraq: A Failure of Diplomacy
The Iraqis kicked us out. After investing hundreds of billions of dollars and sacrificing over 4,000 American servicemen and women (and tens of thousands of more Iraqi soldiers and civilians), ...
Can Mitt Make the Ladies Swoon?
During the last presidential election, Barack Obama’s seemingly magnetic appeal to the opposite sex was a much remarked-upon phenomenon. There were his shirtless vacation photos from the beaches of Hawaii, ...
Revisiting a Political Loser
Michael Lewis, who wrote the book Moneyball — recently turned into a blockbuster movie — is a master of using a compelling human story to show how we truly value ...
Generation Limbo
There has been a crowded field of suffering created by the Great Recession, in which $14.5 trillion of American wealth vanished.
Baby Boomers have lost retirement funds, while Generation X–ers have ...
Kabul Under Siege
It was a nightmarish scene that had worried American security and military officials for years: The United States embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, were under siege from insurgent ...
Opening Our Skies to the Saudis?
In the ten years since the attacks on Sept. 11th, 2001, we’ve been at war with al-Qaeda, fighting the outfit in Afghanistan and Iraq, while keeping up the pressure on ...
How to Help Those Who Helped Us
Ten years ago, an entire generation was marked by the horrific events that took place on a Tuesday morning. Three thousand fifty-one children lost a parent. High-school students gathered around ...