NEW YORK -- While incumbents around the world are struggling to hold on, one is thriving. By bringing the rival Kadima party into his ruling coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu has become "king of Israel," in Aaron David Miller's phrase. He has an ...

NEW YORK -- This pudding lacks a theme, Winston Churchill once said of his dessert. The same might have been said of Barack Obama's re-election campaign, which started strong with his State of the Union address in January and then meandered. It ...

NEW YORK -- The Obama administration's Iran strategy has worked so far. Unprecedented pressure has forced Tehran to the negotiating table. It will take extraordinary diplomatic skills to reach a settlement in the talks this weekend among Iran and ...

No one could have predicted that oil prices would rise to today's levels. Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, says they are irrationally high, pointing out that world demand is lower than the available supply and that Saudi oil inventories ...

NEW YORK -- When I was in college, in the early 1980s, I invited Ronald Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, to give a speech on campus. At the time, U.S. colleges were hotbeds of opposition to the Reagan administration, especially to ...

NEW YORK -- The controversy over the desecration of copies of the Koran in Afghanistan and the murder of Americans that followed is, on one level, one moment in a long war. But it also highlights the difficult and ultimately unsustainable aspect ...