Much ink has been spilled lately decrying the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush. Polls tell us how China is now more popular in Asia than America and how few Europeans say they identify with the United States. I am sure there is truth to these polls. We should have done better in Iraq. An America that presides over Abu Ghraib, torture and Guantanamo Bay deserves a thumbs-down. ...more

July 18, 2008

which have done as much to hurt development as colonialism ever did. That's why after four decades and billions of dollars in aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa remain among the world's poorest. ...more

July 5, 2008

President Bush announced Saturday that the United States was moving to broaden its sanctions against Zimbabwe, for the first time aiming at the government itself as well as a lengthening list of members of its governing elite, because of what he described as "a sham election." ...more

June 29, 2008

Turkey's top general warned that ties with the United States, already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide. ...more

October 15, 2007