The days of Westerners traveling with safety, even in benighted lands, are over.

China's masters are starting to act like they care about ordinary Chinese. Quite a new leaf for Communists.

There are many places around the world where we should "Do Something!"

So near and yet so far!

Hillary believes herself to be a better candidate for the Democrats, and a better President for the country, than Barack Obama.

The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.

There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.