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 ...