Having lived in Washington for almost four decades, I thought I was beyond becoming outraged by politicians who make bizarre claims that distort history and/or logic.This week’s Republican debate, however, featured a number of whoppers that left my blood boiling.Unfortunately, th

It was not that long ago that pundits had the 2016 presidential contest pegged as a Clinton-Bush matchup.

For the past several weeks, considerable attention was paid to the number of Democratic senators announcing their support for the Iran deal.

It was a stroke of genius that Lebanon’s young protesters named their movement “You stink.” In just two words, they captured both the essence of their country’s immediate crisis over uncollected garbage and its longer-term structural problems.For months now, trash has been piling

When Julian Bond died last week, every major news outlet featured tributes praising his more than five decades of leadership in the struggle for civil rights.He was all the things that were said about him.

No American citizen should be subjected to the treatment that George Khoury and Habib Joudeh received when they arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel last month.George is a 70-year-old Palestinian American from San Francisco. Habib, 62, from Brooklyn, is also an American c

A flurry of recent bilateral and multilateral discussions involving Americans, Russians, Saudis and others have provoked speculation that there may be a renewed push for negotiations to end the conflict in Syria.

The 2016 Republican presidential contest has barely begun and it has already grown alternately tiresome and old or just downright scary. As a Democrat, I might be pleased, but as an American, I am deeply troubled.

Congress is currently considering legislation that would create a whole new bureaucracy within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deal with “countering violent extremism” (CVE).