by Ahmed Tharwat I visited Egypt last month and spent a week covering a story with PBS News Hour crew. On my last day in… more »

Singh’s visit to Washington DC, the first state dinner of the Obama presidency was large on symbols, short on anything truly substantive.

The brouhaha over the “discovery” of the Qum site was epic. Israel and numerous American politicians claimed that it “proved” that Iran was building a… more »

Once the world’s policeman, insistent on reshaping the map of the Middle East, now America wants to settle geopolitical disputes like schoolyard brawls. … more »

ANAHEIM, California—What were anti-Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, British MP George Galloway, Palestinian activist Reem Salahi, and anti-Iraq War mother Cindy Sheehan doing together on… more »

I thanked holocaust survivor Wiesel because he provided us with one of the main slogans for combating past and recent racism in the United States:… more »

It’s that I find it hard to awake my own inspiration when all I hear around me is about destruction and elimination.

I am a Soviet Jew who left the USSR to the US via an Israeli visa.Having been to Gaza and seen the hell it was… more »

The size 10 shoes didn’t hit him but for the man’s sake, in dreams, where convictions often drop away and conscience plays itself out in… more »

With issues like health care, the economy, and the war in Iraq at the forefront of this election, our relationship with Latin America is on… more »

An op-ed in The Korea Times weighs US candidates’ positions on Korea, including the KORUS FTA and ongoing six-party talks over North Korea’s denuclearization. In sum,… more »

When we all make our own contributions to improving the world, can we fight the course of history and climatic patterns?

Joe Biden: Could he help or hurt Obama’s campaign? By Anthony D. Advincula NEW YORK—About 2:20 a.m. today, while watching China winning the Olympic bronze medal in… more »

Aren’t the Olympics supposed to showcase human power? Trickery is our power. Some of the fireworks in Beijing never existed. The cute Chinese girl didn’t… more »