NEW YORK -- President Obama's critics have pounced on his use of the phrase "red line" to urge military intervention in Syria. They argue, in the words of Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, that the "credibility of the United States is on the ...

NEW YORK -- As we learn more about the brothers Tsarnaev, we are inclined to ask larger questions about their apparent descent into terror. What does it tell us about radical Islam, Russian immigrants, Muslim communities and the breakdown of ...

NEW YORK -- I grew up admiring Margaret Thatcher. It was obvious to many of us in India in the 1970s that socialist economics didn't work and that Thatcher's radical reforms were the right course, one we wished someone would advocate in India. (It...

NEW YORK -- As a piece of rhetoric, Barack Obama's speech to college students in Jerusalem was a triumph. He finally convinced Israel and its supporters that "HE GETS US," as one of them emailed me. "In his Kishkas (gut), he gets us!" But Obama ...

NEW YORK -- Karl Marx wrote that history repeats itself the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. And the third time, he might have added, as North Korea. Just when you thought the place could not get any stranger, it did. In the past ...

NEW YORK -- Secretary of State John Kerry's first foreign trip is an impressive swing through nine countries in Europe and the Middle East.

But I wonder if he should instead have visited just two countries, China and Japan. That's where the most ...